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[[caption-width-right:350:Davros is back and he's been to the [[InspectorGadget Dr. Claw]] Emporium since his accident with [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks}} Bostock.]]]]
When we last left our heroes, things looked grim. Sarah Jane was about to get gunned down in her car, Gwen and Ianto's MoreDakka was not going to cut it and the Doctor was regenerating. Well, Torchwood gets protected by a nifty program Tosh designed, Mickey and Jackie materialise with their {{BFG}}s just in time to save Sarah Jane, and Ten regenerates... back into Ten.
Wait, what? Apparently, since the Doctor's hand-in-a-jar is [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E6TheDoctorsDaughter kept in the control room]], he could use it to heal without changing. He simply directed the excess energy into the hand, instead of into a whole new body. Everyone is relieved that Ten is still Ten. But a regeneration is still a regeneration, and he won't be getting it back.
The Daleks surround the TARDIS, suck out its power and take them to the Crucible, the Daleks' base ship. Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie decide to go along, and some helpful Daleks take them there too.
Meanwhile, Commando Martha says goodbye to her mother and teleports to Germany, where we are treated to [[RuleOfCool Daleks speaking German]]. And Martha speaking German. She avoids a prophetic woman babbling about nightmares and gets to the Osterhagen station with a mysterious device called the Osterhagen key.
The Doctor, Jack, Rose and Donna are surrounded by Daleks in the Crucible and step out of the TARDIS to face them. Donna is distracted by the sound of a heartbeat, and gets stuck inside the TARDIS. The Daleks open up a trap door and the TARDIS (comically, really) gets flushed into the core of the Crucible. Donna is trapped in the burning TARDIS. She looks over at the hand and reaches out to touch it. The jar bursts, and the hand is enveloped in a golden light that seems to be forming... a new body! It's the Doctor!
->'''Donna:''' It's you!\\
'''Doctor Clone:''' Oh yes!\\
'''Donna:''' You're naked!\\
'''Doctor Clone:''' ''Oh yes!''
The Doctor Clone dematerialises the TARDIS just in time, but everyone else thinks it has been destroyed. Jack lets himself get killed by a Dalek and plays possum, hoping to infiltrate the base. The Daleks take the Doctor and Rose to Davros and sweep Jack in the trash.
Back on the TARDIS, the Doctor Clone finds some clothes (specifically, the blue outfit), and tries to explain himself to Donna.
->'''Donna:''' You are bonkers! Is that what Time Lords do? Lop a bit off, and grow another one? You're like worms!
Apparently, when Donna touched Handy, there was a "instantaneous biological metacrisis" and the Doctor Clone grew out of Donna. As a result, he talks a bit like her too.
->'''Donna:''' Oi! Watch it, space man!\\
'''Doctor Clone:''' Oi! Watch it, Earth girl! Ooh... I sound like you!
More than that, New Ten has only got one heart. ("Oh, that's disgusting.") Apparently, he's part Time Lord, part human. And he explains to Donna how special she is for being part of him now. She's finally starting to believe it a little.
Back at the crucible, Davros gives the Doctor a briefing on their plan. Apparently all the 27 planets combined form a "reality bomb" that dissolves every form of matter. Davros gets really excited and [[ChewingTheScenery chews on every available piece of scenery]]. But the Doctor realises that Davros isn't remotely in charge of his creatures any more. He was taken out of the Time War by [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks Dalek Caan]], who stared into Time itself, neatly mirroring [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E13ThePartingOfTheWays the way Rose saved the Doctor from the Daleks once]]. But Dalek Caan didn't have a Time Lord around to take Time itself away again, and he went ''completely mad'' in the process. Davros is now little more than the Daleks' "pet": a source of DNA cells to rebuild the Dalek race, but locked in the basement by his own offspring. Anyway, Davros explains that the 27 stolen planets form a compression field which can be released as a wave with the power to cancel out the electrical energy of atoms, reducing all matter into dust and ''then'' turning the dust into atoms and the atoms into nothing. The resulting "reality bomb" has the potential to keep travelling forever across all universe and even creep its way into ''parallel universes'', destroying all life and matter in existence, until only the Daleks remain.
The Doctor's friends haven't given up yet. Jack, Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie ''will'' use Sarah Jane's [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E7E8WhateverHappenedToSarahJane Veran necklace]] (which contains a crystallised ''nova explosion'') to blow up the Crucible (including themselves) if Davros doesn't stop. Similarly, Martha Jones ''will'' use the Osterhagen key to activate a doomsday device that will blow up the Earth (including herself) and put everyone out of their misery ''and'' leaving Davros stuck with just 26 planets: not enough to power up his reality bomb. Unfortunately, these threats work well with Davros' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, as Davros accuses the Doctor of being a TechnicalPacifist while his friends have become tools of violence. The Doctor remembers all the people who died to save his life during the New Series. But regardless of all that, the Doctor's friends' plans come to naught, as they are immediately zapped to the Vault by the Daleks.
And suddenly, the TARDIS materialises and the Doctor Clone runs forward with their new Dalek-killing gun. But Davros, in true [[Franchise/StarWars Emperor]] fashion, can shoot lightning out of his hands, and he zaps the Doctor Clone and Donna. The reality bomb goes into its final countdown and...
Nothing happens.
Donna stopped it! Even though she used to not even be able to change a plug, Davros' lightning triggered the ''other'' half of the metacrisis: when she activated the energy in the hand, part of her became filled with Time Lord essence. Now in possession of an active Time Lord mind, she's able to come up with Dalek-disabling solutions lightning fast with a huge surge of techno-babble. So that's [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E3PlanetOfTheOod what the Ood were talking about]]!
->'''Doctor-Donna:''' Did I ever tell you, best temp in Chiswick? A hundred words a minute!
As they get into the TARDIS, the Doctor Clone decides that even without their reality bomb, the Dalek empire is still a monstrous threat against the universe, so he tampers with the Crucible's control's panel to unleash a lethal energy feedback that blow up ''all'' the Daleks, to the utter horror of the original Doctor, who ''really'' doesn't like to be reminded of what he did in the Time War. The Doctor offers Davros a chance to be saved, but Davros chooses to stay behind and die on the exploding Crucible, bitterly cursing the Doctor and naming him "The destroyer of worlds!".
All the planets are sent home, but Earth ''just'' doesn't make it before the teleportation device gets blasted. So, they decide to turn the TARDIS into an Earth tow boat. In Cardiff, Torchwood Three uses the Cardiff Rift to provide massive amounts of energy. The Doctor properly introduces himself to Ianto and Gwen through their video connection, and he and Rose are happy to see that [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E3TheUnquietDead Gwyneth]] has a 21st century relative. In Ealing, K-9 and Luke provide the supercomputer Mr Smith with all the TARDIS data needed to get the Earth back home. Everyone gathers around the TARDIS core to help fly the Earth back home. (Well, all except Jackie, who isn't allowed near the controls.) Everyone hugs everyone. Donna especially hugs Jack a lot.
Sarah Jane heads back home to Luke. The Doctor blocks Jack's teleportation wrist watch again. Martha promises to destroy the Ostenhagen key and walks off with Jack (whose story continues in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', [[Recap/TorchwoodS3E1DayOne "Day One")]]. Mickey realises that he's finally done following Rose around and... starts following Martha around. The TARDIS heads back to alternate dimension Norway to drop off Rose and Jackie. Rose doesn't want to leave the Doctor, but the Doctor offers her a nice consolation prize of the Doctor Clone, because the Doctor feels that this version of himself is a bit too genocide-happy (much like he himself used to be) and needs a Rose in his life to cure that. The Doctor Clone is also part ''human'', able to age, and willing to spend his life with Rose from now on. This doesn't sit quite right with Rose yet. She begs the two Doctors to finally tell her [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday what he wanted to say to her last time]], after she said "I love you" to him. The Doctor still CannotSpitItOut. [[note]]Rose: 0. Little shops: 3.[[/note]] The Doctor Clone whispers it into her ear, and although we can't hear it, she's happy enough and responds by snogging him.
In the TARDIS, Doctor-Donna is starting to exhibit some problems, as her behaviour becomes hyperactive and she literally can't stop talking or focus on a single matter. Her Time Lord brain is overloading her human body, which, as the doctor solemnly explains, is the reason why there never has been a human/Time Lord fusion before. And there's only one way to save Donna's life. She begs and pleads, but the Doctor takes her into his arms and gently wipes her memories. She can never remember who she was, or anything about the Doctor, or she'll ''burn up.'' She goes back to the way she used to be, and she can never know about how much she saved the universe or how amazing she was. The Doctor takes her home, where she turns into her old self... her ''old'' old self, loud and crass... And [[FridgeHorror someone's going to have to tell her that she's missed two full years, and that her fiancée and her father are dead]], that is, if the memory-wiping was thorough enough to blank out that much. The Doctor tells Donna's mother to be ''nice'' to her for a change, bids Wilf farewell and steps out of their lives. (For now.)
The Doctor goes off, once again on his own. He takes off his jacket, soaked to the brim in rain... just like his morale.
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* ActingForTwo: David Tennant as both Doctors.
* AndStarring: Elisabeth Sladen again.
* ApocalypseHow: The Daleks threaten a class 5 omniversal (complete physical destruction of all matter in any form across all possible universes) though it may very well "only" have destroyed a finite number of universes, making the devastation multiversal.
* ArcWords: Pretty much all of them for this season.
* AskAStupidQuestion
-->'''Jackie:''' I was pregnant, do you remember? Had a baby boy.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Ah! Brilliant. What'd you call him?\\
'''Jackie:''' Doctor.\\
'''The Doctor:''' ''Really?''\\
'''Jackie:''' No, you plum. He's called Tony.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: A couple of grammar mistakes on the German and while "Exterminieren" is a German word, it's rarely used in that language. Technically, not grammar mistakes; the Daleks are aliens and have, according to the series at least, never spoken German before. A few errors can be allowed.
** They did, perhaps understandably, miss a trick with 'Exterminieren!' in place of 'Vernichten!'; both words mean the same, "to exterminate", but the latter word is cognate to ''n.'' 'Vernichtung', a word with some [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany nasty historical overtones]] which fit very neatly in line with Terry Nation's original vision of the Daleks. On the other hand, an English monoglot can understand 'Exterminieren!' immediately, which is reason enough to favor it in a British show even without considering the historical baggage 'Vernichten!' might stir up. (If the Daleks are repeatedly screaming one word over and over, what ''else'' could it mean? But we do want to sell the programme in Germany, too.)
* BackForTheFinale: The episode sees the return of every former companion from the previous four series and many recurring characters. The opening credits list Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/CatherineTate, Creator/FreemaAgyeman, Creator/JohnBarrowman, Creator/ElisabethSladen ''and'' Music/BilliePiper -- everyone who has ever been credited in the opening since the revival first began, with the exception of Creator/ChristopherEccleston and the addition of Sladen. Also back are Mickey, Jackie, Wilf, Harriet Jones and basically every recurring character in the revival, [[CrisisCrossover plus]] Gwen and Ianto from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and Luke, K-9 and Mr Smith from ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''. Whew!
* {{Badass}}
** The ''alte Frau'' who met Martha at the castle; when the garrison fled, she took their duty upon herself, and further still came within an ace of shooting Martha dead to ensure the Osterhagen Key would not be used.
** Jackie takes a level in this too. Now she blows up Daleks.
* {{BFG}}
** Rose has one of these. Jack's is pretty big too.
---> '''Rose''': Hello boys! Do you like my gun?
** Mickey and ''Jackie'' of all people even have {{BFG}}s. They're endemic.
* BigDamnHeroes: Mickey and Jackie saving Sarah Jane Smith from a pair of Daleks early on.
* BilingualBonus: The German dialogue. Translation available on the BBC website.
* BittersweetEnding: Rose and the Doctor are finally reunited, but he has to watch her in the arms of another man and leave her behind forever. Donna saved not only the entire Earth (and the other 26 planets) but all of ''creation'', but can't remember or else she'll burn up. So she has no idea how important she is, and the Doctor's on his own again. Sarah Jane points out to the Doctor that he has many friends who who love him, quite a few of whom remain on Earth, in the main universe, and with their memories intact. The Doctor then goes to travel alone and doesn't see any of them again until his death.
* BreakTheCutie: The Universe really hates Ten. C'mon, Davros' ReasonYouSuckSpeech was bordering on MindRape.
* CallBack
** The Reality Bomb annihilates humans with the same effect as Bad Wolf/Rose annihilated Daleks with.
** Also, the BFG that Jack uses is the old Defabricator he turned into a gun and used on one Dalek in "Parting of the Ways".
** A very small one: Sarah Jane and Rose are happy to see each other.
* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling the Old Woman Out]]: The Doctor lets Sylvia have it for her awful treatment of Donna.
* CannotSpitItOut: The Doctor can't complete the sentence "Rose Tyler..." from "Doomsday". Handy, however, can. Possibly subverted in that he may have just wanted to make sure Rose went with and accepted Handy.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The show finally gets its last bit of mileage out of the Doctor's lost hand.
* CloningBlues: Subverted: the Other Doctor doesn't angst about how he isn't real, although Rose initially does. This dynamic is shown again in series 6, with the Doctor and his clone trusting each other completely right from the start.
* ContinuityPorn: So much, so much, so much! FlashBack to everyone who sacrificed themselves for the Doctor in the new series, Davros recognizing Sarah from "Genesis" and return to Bad Wolf Bay.
** There's also a bit of a nod to "The Unquiet Dead"; apparently Gwen is spatial genetic multiplicity (read: [[UncannyFamilyResemblance identical relative]]) of Gwyneth.
** In a piece of AscendedFanon, we see the TARDIS flown by as many people as it's meant to be ''for the first time in 45 years''.
** Doctor-Donna remembers how to fix the TARDIS' Chameleon circuit, like the Sixth incarnation. Since she has the Doctor's mind it's implied that he '''can''' fix the Tardis Chameleon circuit, he just doesn't want to as he likes the police-box shape.
** Doctor-Donna's fate is sealed as her mind has absorbed too much information to possibly contain. It's a very similar fate to Bad Wolf/Rose, though the solution is somewhat different.
** Also, Sarah Jane was given the warp necklace thingy by a "Veran soothsayer"; the same one who gave her the puzzle box in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'''s "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?"
** Ten asks Rose what happened in the [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universe]] since they run a few hours ahead of the regular universe. He previously [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno used this knowledge]] to save the Earth from man-made catastrophic volcanic eruptions many incarnations ago.
* CrisisCrossover: Ianto, Jack and Gwen from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Sarah Jane, Luke and Mr Smith from ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and Rose, Martha, Mickey and Harriet Jones and basically everyone connected to the show since RTD got hold of it all turn up. Even K9 gets to appear. ''Crisis of Infinite Doctors'', perhaps?
* DeusExMachina
** K9 being called out at exactly the moment he's needed. Good dog!
** And the hand becoming another Doctor just in time to save the TARDIS. Although technically that would be a Deus ex Manu.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Davros certainly didn't know that the Doctor had dumped regeneration energy into the hand. Only the Doctor clone and Donna knew that it had set the hand up to instantly grow a new Doctor through spontaneous metacrisis (he only knew after the fact, and only Donna knew when she was told). NOBODY knew that zapping Donna after all of that happened would trigger the Time Lord brain in Donna.
* DiscontinuityNod
** There has never been a being that's half-human/half-Time Lord before. [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTvMovie Never ever ever.]] And the Doctor ''certainly'' isn't one.
** Davros being little more than a slave to the Daleks, and in fact being taken for a ride by Caan, could also be a similar nod to the post-Davros Dalek situation. Many fans lamented that after "Genesis", the Daleks had become nothing more than thugs for Davros himself, although this was rectified somewhat in "Revelation" and "Remembrance".
* DisneyDeath: The Doctor
* DragonInChief: Inversion. The Doctor mocks Davros as the Daleks' "pet", and he is actually a prisoner, kept alive only to help them construct the Reality Bomb and will likely be exterminated once the plan is complete. He is not TheDragon in any meaningful sense, but nonetheless he is a minion serving as the ''de facto'' main antagonist.
* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: "Only one planet left! Oh, and [[GenreSavvy guess which one]]." A literal example too, as the Medusa Cascade is at the centre of all creation.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: the Daleks prevent Martha Jones from using the Osterhagen Key doomsday device. Just as well.
* EasyAmnesia: {{Inverted}}. Donna's memory isn't wiped that easily, but anything that reminds her of her travels with the Doctor will restore it and kill her.
* EditedForSyndication: The CBS Canadian broadcast of the episode cut 20 minutes out of the episode for a hour-long broadcast with commercials. [[http://dwin.org/home/news/article/What_got_cut_from_Journey_s_End A list of the cuts is here.]]
* EpicFail: Both Sarah Jane and UNIT have gotten their hands on two devastating super-weapons, the Warpstar that will destroy the Dalek mother ship and the Osterhagen Key that will destroy the Earth (thus ruining the Dalek's plans), respectively; Sarah Jane allied with Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler to infiltrate the ship and Martha Jones risked capture and death in Dalek-occupied Germany to be in position to activate the Key. Much of the episode focuses on the efforts of several characters to get in the right position to use them, and when the moment comes many of them contact the Daleks via video link to warn them to back off or die. It seems that the Daleks' evil plan is finished... except that Davros just transports everyone to his vault, capturing them and rendering both weapons useless. Then Donna and Doctor Clone show up with their Dalek-destroying weapon... only to get zapped and the weapon destroyed.
* EvilSoundsDeep: The Supreme Dalek has one of the deepest Dalek voices yet.
* FanficMagnet
* FanService: Naked Doctor clone. Well not really fanservice, but as damn close as you're ever going to get, unfortunately.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Yet another trope that applies to Donna's metacrisis.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dalek Caan's declaration of NO MORE!! after having plunged through the Time War would be revisited much later during the 50th Anniversary Special
* GambitRoulette: Dalek Caan's scheme to wipe out all the Daleks by creating a new Dalek empire. Being a prophet probably helped.
* GenreSavvy: Mickey is quick to realise that a Human-Doctor on board would be dropped off with Rose in the alternate universe.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Dalek Caan. Subverted. He knows exactly what he is doing.
* GratuitousGerman: EXTERMINIEREN!
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Donna saved ''all of reality'', but can never know it, not ever, because then she'll die.
* HalfHumanHybrid: New Doctor and Doctor Donna, sort of.
* HamToHamCombat: Possibly one of the most glorious examples in the series' history, with Doctor-Donna, Davros, the Daleks and the Doctor himself being particularly excellent sources.
* HeelFaceTurn / HeelRealization: Dalek Caan. Sort of. Combined with TheChessmaster and ThePlan. Notable in that he's essentially the first Dalek to do so of his own free will, not involving genetic mumbo-jumbo. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks This after killing his former superior, Dalek Sec, for basically the same thing]].
-->'''Davros:''' (''shocked'') You betrayed the Daleks?\\
'''Dalek Caan:''' I ''saw'' the Daleks. What we have done throughout time and space. I saw the truth of us, creator, and I decreed: No more!
* HeroicSacrifice and MoreExpendableThanYou: Given a ContinuityNod / LampshadeHanging.
* HybridPower: The Doctor undergoes a "biological meta-crisis" in which he uses regeneration energy to form a clone which has some of Donna's personality. More importantly, the same process gives Donna the Doctor's mental prowess, which, combined with her "gut instinct" as a human, makes her a hypergenius capable of things even the Doctor would never think to do. Unfortunately, the human-Time Lord meta-crisis proves to be unstable, and would kill her if she didn't have her [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory erased]].
* IronicEcho: "I was going to be with you, forever."
* JustFollowingOrders: Martha is going to destroy the Earth. She says, "I'm a member of UNIT, and they gave me the Osterhagen Key. I've got to do my job. I'm sorry." Next scene, where is she? Near '''Nuremberg'''.
* LargeHam: Even discounting the usual suspects, Doctor-Donna and Davros could have stocked a deli section all by themselves.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: PlayedWith. The Doctor can't just wipe Donna's memories of his consciousness; he has to wipe ''all'' of her memories of him and their travels together. If she ever remembers anything about him, she would end up remembering everything and would die.
* LeftForDead: Davros and Dalek Caan. After all, NoOneCouldSurviveThat, right? It's not like there's such thing as JokerImmunity, ThereIsAnother, BackFromTheDead or -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOfTheDaleks c'mon, you just know this isn't the end of the Daleks]]. WordOfGod has already stated that Davros survived. Davies admitted he doesn't want to kill such a classic villain off. Odds are good that Dalek Caan survived somehow, too.
* LightningCanDoAnything
* MadOracle: Dalek Caan. Subverted -- he is an oracle and may be mad but he is much more in control of events than anyone expects.
* MercyKill: What the Osterhagen key is intended to do to Earth and humanity.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Davros even calls the Doctor that (minus the "Mike Nelson" bit, of course).
* MixAndMatchMan: The Doctor + Donna clone.
* MoodWhiplash: Like hell. Surprisingly, this is ''averted'' in the final moments, with The Doctor still looking rather glum over Donna's LaserGuidedAmnesia. He pulls the lever on the TARDIS to leave, then the credits roll, and ''that's it.'' Unlike the last three series finales, the somber mood is not suddenly swept away by bizarre hijinks.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Apparently everybody can help with the TARDIS... except Jackie. She should just stand over there... thanks.
* MySkullRunnethOver: Donna. ''Damn''.
* MythologyGag: Even though in this phrase it is technically referring to the same incarnation of the Doctor, the line "Three doctors?" evokes the old crossover episodes.
* NakedOnArrival: The Doctor Clone.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Had Davros not fired at Donna, his victory would have been assured. To be fair, though, he couldn't have known that the Doctor had his hand cut off several series ago, that he had been shot and forced to regenerate, that he chose to dump his regeneration energy into that severed hand or that Donna herself inadvertently triggered a spontaneous metacrisis to create a Doctor clone. (The Doctor ''himself'' didn't have a clue until the TARDIS materialised.) Even if he had somehow guessed at ''that'' there was no way he'd know that the metacrisis was two-way, and that zapping Donna would trigger the Time Lord brain in Donna. ForWantOfANail, he'd have won, but he just [[DidntSeeThatComing couldn't see it coming.]]
* NoEndorHolocaust: Dragging the Earth at super-light speeds across half the Universe would probably cause a little more trouble than a mild earthquake. (Presumably the TARDIS extended its InertialDampening, big-time.) Just dragging it out of the moon's influence would cause endless disasters. (And the moon shouldn't be there any more when they put the Earth back.)
* NotSoDifferent: Davros tries to pull this one on The Doctor. Since Davros is an OmnicidalManiac, though, it doesn't really come off.
* NothingCanStopUsNow: Davros
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Dalek Caan may well be completely crazy (the script never really says one way or the other), but he is also way, way more in control of events than anyone thinks it's possible for him to be until it's too late for Davros or the Daleks to stop him. This is pretty much the only reason the universe gets out alive.
* OmnicidalManiac: "The DESTRUCTION! OF REALITY! ITSEEEELLLLLFFF!!!" Davros has been an OmnicidalManiac for quite some time. Now that he's capable of destroying reality, [[LargeHam he's overjoyed.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The Doctor, of all people, in the scene at Bad Wolf Bay, as David Tennant lapses into a Scottish accent after three solid years of credible Estuary.
* PrematureEncapsulation
* PowerOfFriendship: All of the Doctor's previous companions have shown that they're quite willing to die (in some cases, repeatedly) to protect him. This episode puts a subversive twist on this with the claim by Davros that the Doctor basically turns everyone who loves him into living weapons for his cause.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Same as the last episode, with Noel Clarke and Camille Coduri added post-titles.
* ProphecyTwist
** "That version of Donna is dead." "The end of everything (Dalek)".
** Threefold Man... and all this time people thought a previous Doctor was coming back.
** Same for Doctor-Donna, which about everyone assumed was the Ood being incapable of telling the two apart.
** "Most faithful companion", also. The TARDIS "died" (or was declared so); his human version went to Pete's World (when Rose did, she was considered "dead"); the Donna that travelled with the Doctor, who vanished along with Doctor-Donna. Which is, as the name says, partly the Doctor himself. It's more of a Prophecy Wham than a Twist.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Davros' hammy MotiveRant.
* PutOnABus: Everyone bar the Doctor.
* ResetButton
** The Doctor mind-wiping Donna.
** Conspicuously avoided was resetting many of the other important happenings in the episode, to the point where it's an Aversion bordering on the Subversion.
** The Doctor blocking Jack's teleporter again definitely fits, though.
** The Dalek invasion(s) got erased from history and memory briefly in series 5, but presumably restored at the end of it.
** ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' has confirmed that there was indeed no "Reset" and that the human race is now fully aware of the existence of aliens.
* RuleOfThree
** It only takes three Osterhagen Stations to activate the Osterhagen Key Fail-safe.
** We also have three instances of the Tenth Doctor.
** The daleks are also using 27=3^3 planets to power their reality bomb.
* RunningGagStumbles: PlayedForDrama. The Tenth Doctor's previous series each ended with him bidding farewell to his companion and getting back to business in the TARDIS, only for [[MoodWhiplash an unexpected and comical]] {{cliffhanger}} to ensue. In this finale, however, he parts ways with Donna, somberly returns to the TARDIS, and then...episode's over.
* RunningTheAsylum
* SelfDestructMechanism: The Earth has one.
* ShoutOut: Davros is basically [[Franchise/StarWars Emperor Palpatine]] in a hover-chair. The melted face, the constant talk of fulfilling destiny, and he even shoots lightning!
* SignificantAnagram: "Osterhagen", as in the Osterhagen Key, is an anagram of "Earth's Gone".
* SomeKindOfForceField: Trapping our heroes.
* SoulFragment
* StunnedSilence: The reaction of Donna, Rose and Captain Jack when the Doctor regenerates into... himself.
* SuicideByCop: Dalek Caan's prophecies were just a ruse to create a situation where his entire race (and Davros) were completely exterminated as he had finally realized that the universe would be a ''much'' better place without them around.
* {{Tearjerker}}: Donna finally realising how special and important she is and then having to forget all of her time with The Doctor, and leave him alone again.
* TechnoBabble: Laid on with a trowel. Doctor-Donna is the guiltiest of the group.
* TemptingFate: Davros: [[NothingCanStopUsNow "AND NOTHING CAN STOP THE DETONATION! NOTHING! AND NO ONE!"]] Honestly, he was ''begging'' for it.
* ThereIsAnother: There are always more Daleks.
* TookALevelInBadass
** Gwen and Ianto taking on the Dalek with G36s.
** This entire episode goes out of its way to establish the position of ex-companion as a badass prestige class, even giving them a cool collective name as "The Children of Time."
** Donna had already taken a level in badass during her time with the Doctor, but she takes ''another'' level when she becomes imbued with his consciousness. Doctor-Donna is a glorious thing to see. Too bad it has to result in a ResetButton for her personality.
* TranslationConvention: Averted with the German-speaking Daleks. The TARDIS's UniversalTranslator only works when the Doctor is present.
* TrueCompanions: The "children of time".
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: "Three doctors?" Jack: "I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now."
* TwoKeyedLock: It takes three Osterhagen Stations to activate the Osterhagen Key Fail-safe.
* UnwittingPawn
** Dalek Supreme, who should know better than to trust the wild prophecies of a madman. Well, he ''does'' know better, and initially dismisses Caan. Davros however claims that Caan "only speaks the truth", and can't imagine that one of his creations would betray him. [[GenreBlind Again]].
** Davros, outsmarted by his own creation in the most thorough way since the character's introduction.
* VictoryGuidedAmnesia
* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the Mice]]
** Of the Doctor's companions on Earth at this time who have faced the Fell Saltshakers, we know that Sarah Jane, Rose, Jack and Martha survived and that Donna died FromACertainPointOfView. What were the other 20th century Earth companions (many of whom were confirmed to be active as of the fourth series of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'') doing?
** We never exactly find what happened on the other planets the Daleks stole. However a comic-strip later that year The Forgotten does give some information about what happened on one of the worlds.
* YouAreNotAlone: Sarah Jane reminds the Doctor:
-->'''Sarah Jane:''' You know, you act like such a lonely man, but look at you! You've got the biggest family on Earth!
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When we last left our heroes, things looked grim. Sarah Jane was about to get gunned down in her car, Gwen and Ianto's MoreDakka was not going to cut it and the Doctor was regenerating. Well, Torchwood gets protected by a nifty program Tosh designed, Mickey and Jackie materialise with their {{BFG}}s just in time to save Sarah Jane, and Ten regenerates... back into Ten.
Wait, what? Apparently, since the Doctor's hand-in-a-jar is [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E6TheDoctorsDaughter kept in the control room]], he could use it to heal without changing. He simply directed the excess energy into the hand, instead of into a whole new body. Everyone is relieved that Ten is still Ten. But a regeneration is still a regeneration, and he won't be getting it back.
The Daleks surround the TARDIS, suck out its power and take them to the Crucible, the Daleks' base ship. Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie decide to go along, and some helpful Daleks take them there too.
Meanwhile, Commando Martha says goodbye to her mother and teleports to Germany, where we are treated to [[RuleOfCool Daleks speaking German]]. And Martha speaking German. She avoids a prophetic woman babbling about nightmares and gets to the Osterhagen station with a mysterious device called the Osterhagen key.
The Doctor, Jack, Rose and Donna are surrounded by Daleks in the Crucible and step out of the TARDIS to face them. Donna is distracted by the sound of a heartbeat, and gets stuck inside the TARDIS. The Daleks open up a trap door and the TARDIS (comically, really) gets flushed into the core of the Crucible. Donna is trapped in the burning TARDIS. She looks over at the hand and reaches out to touch it. The jar bursts, and the hand is enveloped in a golden light that seems to be forming... a new body! It's the Doctor!
->'''Donna:''' It's you!\\
'''Doctor Clone:''' Oh yes!\\
'''Donna:''' You're naked!\\
'''Doctor Clone:''' ''Oh yes!''
The Doctor Clone dematerialises the TARDIS just in time, but everyone else thinks it has been destroyed. Jack lets himself get killed by a Dalek and plays possum, hoping to infiltrate the base. The Daleks take the Doctor and Rose to Davros and sweep Jack in the trash.
Back on the TARDIS, the Doctor Clone finds some clothes (specifically, the blue outfit), and tries to explain himself to Donna.
->'''Donna:''' You are bonkers! Is that what Time Lords do? Lop a bit off, and grow another one? You're like worms!
Apparently, when Donna touched Handy, there was a "instantaneous biological metacrisis" and the Doctor Clone grew out of Donna. As a result, he talks a bit like her too.
->'''Donna:''' Oi! Watch it, space man!\\
'''Doctor Clone:''' Oi! Watch it, Earth girl! Ooh... I sound like you!
More than that, New Ten has only got one heart. ("Oh, that's disgusting.") Apparently, he's part Time Lord, part human. And he explains to Donna how special she is for being part of him now. She's finally starting to believe it a little.
Back at the crucible, Davros gives the Doctor a briefing on their plan. Apparently all the 27 planets combined form a "reality bomb" that dissolves every form of matter. Davros gets really excited and [[ChewingTheScenery chews on every available piece of scenery]]. But the Doctor realises that Davros isn't remotely in charge of his creatures any more. He was taken out of the Time War by [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks Dalek Caan]], who stared into Time itself, neatly mirroring [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E13ThePartingOfTheWays the way Rose saved the Doctor from the Daleks once]]. But Dalek Caan didn't have a Time Lord around to take Time itself away again, and he went ''completely mad'' in the process. Davros is now little more than the Daleks' "pet": a source of DNA cells to rebuild the Dalek race, but locked in the basement by his own offspring. Anyway, Davros explains that the 27 stolen planets form a compression field which can be released as a wave with the power to cancel out the electrical energy of atoms, reducing all matter into dust and ''then'' turning the dust into atoms and the atoms into nothing. The resulting "reality bomb" has the potential to keep travelling forever across all universe and even creep its way into ''parallel universes'', destroying all life and matter in existence, until only the Daleks remain.
The Doctor's friends haven't given up yet. Jack, Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie ''will'' use Sarah Jane's [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E7E8WhateverHappenedToSarahJane Veran necklace]] (which contains a crystallised ''nova explosion'') to blow up the Crucible (including themselves) if Davros doesn't stop. Similarly, Martha Jones ''will'' use the Osterhagen key to activate a doomsday device that will blow up the Earth (including herself) and put everyone out of their misery ''and'' leaving Davros stuck with just 26 planets: not enough to power up his reality bomb. Unfortunately, these threats work well with Davros' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, as Davros accuses the Doctor of being a TechnicalPacifist while his friends have become tools of violence. The Doctor remembers all the people who died to save his life during the New Series. But regardless of all that, the Doctor's friends' plans come to naught, as they are immediately zapped to the Vault by the Daleks.
And suddenly, the TARDIS materialises and the Doctor Clone runs forward with their new Dalek-killing gun. But Davros, in true [[Franchise/StarWars Emperor]] fashion, can shoot lightning out of his hands, and he zaps the Doctor Clone and Donna. The reality bomb goes into its final countdown and...
Nothing happens.
Donna stopped it! Even though she used to not even be able to change a plug, Davros' lightning triggered the ''other'' half of the metacrisis: when she activated the energy in the hand, part of her became filled with Time Lord essence. Now in possession of an active Time Lord mind, she's able to come up with Dalek-disabling solutions lightning fast with a huge surge of techno-babble. So that's [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E3PlanetOfTheOod what the Ood were talking about]]!
->'''Doctor-Donna:''' Did I ever tell you, best temp in Chiswick? A hundred words a minute!
As they get into the TARDIS, the Doctor Clone decides that even without their reality bomb, the Dalek empire is still a monstrous threat against the universe, so he tampers with the Crucible's control's panel to unleash a lethal energy feedback that blow up ''all'' the Daleks, to the utter horror of the original Doctor, who ''really'' doesn't like to be reminded of what he did in the Time War. The Doctor offers Davros a chance to be saved, but Davros chooses to stay behind and die on the exploding Crucible, bitterly cursing the Doctor and naming him "The destroyer of worlds!".
All the planets are sent home, but Earth ''just'' doesn't make it before the teleportation device gets blasted. So, they decide to turn the TARDIS into an Earth tow boat. In Cardiff, Torchwood Three uses the Cardiff Rift to provide massive amounts of energy. The Doctor properly introduces himself to Ianto and Gwen through their video connection, and he and Rose are happy to see that [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E3TheUnquietDead Gwyneth]] has a 21st century relative. In Ealing, K-9 and Luke provide the supercomputer Mr Smith with all the TARDIS data needed to get the Earth back home. Everyone gathers around the TARDIS core to help fly the Earth back home. (Well, all except Jackie, who isn't allowed near the controls.) Everyone hugs everyone. Donna especially hugs Jack a lot.
Sarah Jane heads back home to Luke. The Doctor blocks Jack's teleportation wrist watch again. Martha promises to destroy the Ostenhagen key and walks off with Jack (whose story continues in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', [[Recap/TorchwoodS3E1DayOne "Day One")]]. Mickey realises that he's finally done following Rose around and... starts following Martha around. The TARDIS heads back to alternate dimension Norway to drop off Rose and Jackie. Rose doesn't want to leave the Doctor, but the Doctor offers her a nice consolation prize of the Doctor Clone, because the Doctor feels that this version of himself is a bit too genocide-happy (much like he himself used to be) and needs a Rose in his life to cure that. The Doctor Clone is also part ''human'', able to age, and willing to spend his life with Rose from now on. This doesn't sit quite right with Rose yet. She begs the two Doctors to finally tell her [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday what he wanted to say to her last time]], after she said "I love you" to him. The Doctor still CannotSpitItOut. [[note]]Rose: 0. Little shops: 3.[[/note]] The Doctor Clone whispers it into her ear, and although we can't hear it, she's happy enough and responds by snogging him.
In the TARDIS, Doctor-Donna is starting to exhibit some problems, as her behaviour becomes hyperactive and she literally can't stop talking or focus on a single matter. Her Time Lord brain is overloading her human body, which, as the doctor solemnly explains, is the reason why there never has been a human/Time Lord fusion before. And there's only one way to save Donna's life. She begs and pleads, but the Doctor takes her into his arms and gently wipes her memories. She can never remember who she was, or anything about the Doctor, or she'll ''burn up.'' She goes back to the way she used to be, and she can never know about how much she saved the universe or how amazing she was. The Doctor takes her home, where she turns into her old self... her ''old'' old self, loud and crass... And [[FridgeHorror someone's going to have to tell her that she's missed two full years, and that her fiancée and her father are dead]], that is, if the memory-wiping was thorough enough to blank out that much. The Doctor tells Donna's mother to be ''nice'' to her for a change, bids Wilf farewell and steps out of their lives. (For now.)
The Doctor goes off, once again on his own. He takes off his jacket, soaked to the brim in rain... just like his morale.
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* ActingForTwo: David Tennant as both Doctors.
* AndStarring: Elisabeth Sladen again.
* ApocalypseHow: The Daleks threaten a class 5 omniversal (complete physical destruction of all matter in any form across all possible universes) though it may very well "only" have destroyed a finite number of universes, making the devastation multiversal.
* ArcWords: Pretty much all of them for this season.
* AskAStupidQuestion
-->'''Jackie:''' I was pregnant, do you remember? Had a baby boy.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Ah! Brilliant. What'd you call him?\\
'''Jackie:''' Doctor.\\
'''The Doctor:''' ''Really?''\\
'''Jackie:''' No, you plum. He's called Tony.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: A couple of grammar mistakes on the German and while "Exterminieren" is a German word, it's rarely used in that language. Technically, not grammar mistakes; the Daleks are aliens and have, according to the series at least, never spoken German before. A few errors can be allowed.
** They did, perhaps understandably, miss a trick with 'Exterminieren!' in place of 'Vernichten!'; both words mean the same, "to exterminate", but the latter word is cognate to ''n.'' 'Vernichtung', a word with some [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany nasty historical overtones]] which fit very neatly in line with Terry Nation's original vision of the Daleks. On the other hand, an English monoglot can understand 'Exterminieren!' immediately, which is reason enough to favor it in a British show even without considering the historical baggage 'Vernichten!' might stir up. (If the Daleks are repeatedly screaming one word over and over, what ''else'' could it mean? But we do want to sell the programme in Germany, too.)
* BackForTheFinale: The episode sees the return of every former companion from the previous four series and many recurring characters. The opening credits list Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/CatherineTate, Creator/FreemaAgyeman, Creator/JohnBarrowman, Creator/ElisabethSladen ''and'' Music/BilliePiper -- everyone who has ever been credited in the opening since the revival first began, with the exception of Creator/ChristopherEccleston and the addition of Sladen. Also back are Mickey, Jackie, Wilf, Harriet Jones and basically every recurring character in the revival, [[CrisisCrossover plus]] Gwen and Ianto from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and Luke, K-9 and Mr Smith from ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''. Whew!
* {{Badass}}
** The ''alte Frau'' who met Martha at the castle; when the garrison fled, she took their duty upon herself, and further still came within an ace of shooting Martha dead to ensure the Osterhagen Key would not be used.
** Jackie takes a level in this too. Now she blows up Daleks.
* {{BFG}}
** Rose has one of these. Jack's is pretty big too.
---> '''Rose''': Hello boys! Do you like my gun?
** Mickey and ''Jackie'' of all people even have {{BFG}}s. They're endemic.
* BigDamnHeroes: Mickey and Jackie saving Sarah Jane Smith from a pair of Daleks early on.
* BilingualBonus: The German dialogue. Translation available on the BBC website.
* BittersweetEnding: Rose and the Doctor are finally reunited, but he has to watch her in the arms of another man and leave her behind forever. Donna saved not only the entire Earth (and the other 26 planets) but all of ''creation'', but can't remember or else she'll burn up. So she has no idea how important she is, and the Doctor's on his own again. Sarah Jane points out to the Doctor that he has many friends who who love him, quite a few of whom remain on Earth, in the main universe, and with their memories intact. The Doctor then goes to travel alone and doesn't see any of them again until his death.
* BreakTheCutie: The Universe really hates Ten. C'mon, Davros' ReasonYouSuckSpeech was bordering on MindRape.
* CallBack
** The Reality Bomb annihilates humans with the same effect as Bad Wolf/Rose annihilated Daleks with.
** Also, the BFG that Jack uses is the old Defabricator he turned into a gun and used on one Dalek in "Parting of the Ways".
** A very small one: Sarah Jane and Rose are happy to see each other.
* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling the Old Woman Out]]: The Doctor lets Sylvia have it for her awful treatment of Donna.
* CannotSpitItOut: The Doctor can't complete the sentence "Rose Tyler..." from "Doomsday". Handy, however, can. Possibly subverted in that he may have just wanted to make sure Rose went with and accepted Handy.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The show finally gets its last bit of mileage out of the Doctor's lost hand.
* CloningBlues: Subverted: the Other Doctor doesn't angst about how he isn't real, although Rose initially does. This dynamic is shown again in series 6, with the Doctor and his clone trusting each other completely right from the start.
* ContinuityPorn: So much, so much, so much! FlashBack to everyone who sacrificed themselves for the Doctor in the new series, Davros recognizing Sarah from "Genesis" and return to Bad Wolf Bay.
** There's also a bit of a nod to "The Unquiet Dead"; apparently Gwen is spatial genetic multiplicity (read: [[UncannyFamilyResemblance identical relative]]) of Gwyneth.
** In a piece of AscendedFanon, we see the TARDIS flown by as many people as it's meant to be ''for the first time in 45 years''.
** Doctor-Donna remembers how to fix the TARDIS' Chameleon circuit, like the Sixth incarnation. Since she has the Doctor's mind it's implied that he '''can''' fix the Tardis Chameleon circuit, he just doesn't want to as he likes the police-box shape.
** Doctor-Donna's fate is sealed as her mind has absorbed too much information to possibly contain. It's a very similar fate to Bad Wolf/Rose, though the solution is somewhat different.
** Also, Sarah Jane was given the warp necklace thingy by a "Veran soothsayer"; the same one who gave her the puzzle box in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'''s "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?"
** Ten asks Rose what happened in the [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universe]] since they run a few hours ahead of the regular universe. He previously [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno used this knowledge]] to save the Earth from man-made catastrophic volcanic eruptions many incarnations ago.
* CrisisCrossover: Ianto, Jack and Gwen from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Sarah Jane, Luke and Mr Smith from ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and Rose, Martha, Mickey and Harriet Jones and basically everyone connected to the show since RTD got hold of it all turn up. Even K9 gets to appear. ''Crisis of Infinite Doctors'', perhaps?
* DeusExMachina
** K9 being called out at exactly the moment he's needed. Good dog!
** And the hand becoming another Doctor just in time to save the TARDIS. Although technically that would be a Deus ex Manu.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Davros certainly didn't know that the Doctor had dumped regeneration energy into the hand. Only the Doctor clone and Donna knew that it had set the hand up to instantly grow a new Doctor through spontaneous metacrisis (he only knew after the fact, and only Donna knew when she was told). NOBODY knew that zapping Donna after all of that happened would trigger the Time Lord brain in Donna.
* DiscontinuityNod
** There has never been a being that's half-human/half-Time Lord before. [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTvMovie Never ever ever.]] And the Doctor ''certainly'' isn't one.
** Davros being little more than a slave to the Daleks, and in fact being taken for a ride by Caan, could also be a similar nod to the post-Davros Dalek situation. Many fans lamented that after "Genesis", the Daleks had become nothing more than thugs for Davros himself, although this was rectified somewhat in "Revelation" and "Remembrance".
* DisneyDeath: The Doctor
* DragonInChief: Inversion. The Doctor mocks Davros as the Daleks' "pet", and he is actually a prisoner, kept alive only to help them construct the Reality Bomb and will likely be exterminated once the plan is complete. He is not TheDragon in any meaningful sense, but nonetheless he is a minion serving as the ''de facto'' main antagonist.
* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: "Only one planet left! Oh, and [[GenreSavvy guess which one]]." A literal example too, as the Medusa Cascade is at the centre of all creation.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: the Daleks prevent Martha Jones from using the Osterhagen Key doomsday device. Just as well.
* EasyAmnesia: {{Inverted}}. Donna's memory isn't wiped that easily, but anything that reminds her of her travels with the Doctor will restore it and kill her.
* EditedForSyndication: The CBS Canadian broadcast of the episode cut 20 minutes out of the episode for a hour-long broadcast with commercials. [[http://dwin.org/home/news/article/What_got_cut_from_Journey_s_End A list of the cuts is here.]]
* EpicFail: Both Sarah Jane and UNIT have gotten their hands on two devastating super-weapons, the Warpstar that will destroy the Dalek mother ship and the Osterhagen Key that will destroy the Earth (thus ruining the Dalek's plans), respectively; Sarah Jane allied with Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler to infiltrate the ship and Martha Jones risked capture and death in Dalek-occupied Germany to be in position to activate the Key. Much of the episode focuses on the efforts of several characters to get in the right position to use them, and when the moment comes many of them contact the Daleks via video link to warn them to back off or die. It seems that the Daleks' evil plan is finished... except that Davros just transports everyone to his vault, capturing them and rendering both weapons useless. Then Donna and Doctor Clone show up with their Dalek-destroying weapon... only to get zapped and the weapon destroyed.
* EvilSoundsDeep: The Supreme Dalek has one of the deepest Dalek voices yet.
* FanficMagnet
* FanService: Naked Doctor clone. Well not really fanservice, but as damn close as you're ever going to get, unfortunately.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Yet another trope that applies to Donna's metacrisis.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dalek Caan's declaration of NO MORE!! after having plunged through the Time War would be revisited much later during the 50th Anniversary Special
* GambitRoulette: Dalek Caan's scheme to wipe out all the Daleks by creating a new Dalek empire. Being a prophet probably helped.
* GenreSavvy: Mickey is quick to realise that a Human-Doctor on board would be dropped off with Rose in the alternate universe.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Dalek Caan. Subverted. He knows exactly what he is doing.
* GratuitousGerman: EXTERMINIEREN!
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Donna saved ''all of reality'', but can never know it, not ever, because then she'll die.
* HalfHumanHybrid: New Doctor and Doctor Donna, sort of.
* HamToHamCombat: Possibly one of the most glorious examples in the series' history, with Doctor-Donna, Davros, the Daleks and the Doctor himself being particularly excellent sources.
* HeelFaceTurn / HeelRealization: Dalek Caan. Sort of. Combined with TheChessmaster and ThePlan. Notable in that he's essentially the first Dalek to do so of his own free will, not involving genetic mumbo-jumbo. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks This after killing his former superior, Dalek Sec, for basically the same thing]].
-->'''Davros:''' (''shocked'') You betrayed the Daleks?\\
'''Dalek Caan:''' I ''saw'' the Daleks. What we have done throughout time and space. I saw the truth of us, creator, and I decreed: No more!
* HeroicSacrifice and MoreExpendableThanYou: Given a ContinuityNod / LampshadeHanging.
* HybridPower: The Doctor undergoes a "biological meta-crisis" in which he uses regeneration energy to form a clone which has some of Donna's personality. More importantly, the same process gives Donna the Doctor's mental prowess, which, combined with her "gut instinct" as a human, makes her a hypergenius capable of things even the Doctor would never think to do. Unfortunately, the human-Time Lord meta-crisis proves to be unstable, and would kill her if she didn't have her [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory erased]].
* IronicEcho: "I was going to be with you, forever."
* JustFollowingOrders: Martha is going to destroy the Earth. She says, "I'm a member of UNIT, and they gave me the Osterhagen Key. I've got to do my job. I'm sorry." Next scene, where is she? Near '''Nuremberg'''.
* LargeHam: Even discounting the usual suspects, Doctor-Donna and Davros could have stocked a deli section all by themselves.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: PlayedWith. The Doctor can't just wipe Donna's memories of his consciousness; he has to wipe ''all'' of her memories of him and their travels together. If she ever remembers anything about him, she would end up remembering everything and would die.
* LeftForDead: Davros and Dalek Caan. After all, NoOneCouldSurviveThat, right? It's not like there's such thing as JokerImmunity, ThereIsAnother, BackFromTheDead or -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOfTheDaleks c'mon, you just know this isn't the end of the Daleks]]. WordOfGod has already stated that Davros survived. Davies admitted he doesn't want to kill such a classic villain off. Odds are good that Dalek Caan survived somehow, too.
* LightningCanDoAnything
* MadOracle: Dalek Caan. Subverted -- he is an oracle and may be mad but he is much more in control of events than anyone expects.
* MercyKill: What the Osterhagen key is intended to do to Earth and humanity.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Davros even calls the Doctor that (minus the "Mike Nelson" bit, of course).
* MixAndMatchMan: The Doctor + Donna clone.
* MoodWhiplash: Like hell. Surprisingly, this is ''averted'' in the final moments, with The Doctor still looking rather glum over Donna's LaserGuidedAmnesia. He pulls the lever on the TARDIS to leave, then the credits roll, and ''that's it.'' Unlike the last three series finales, the somber mood is not suddenly swept away by bizarre hijinks.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Apparently everybody can help with the TARDIS... except Jackie. She should just stand over there... thanks.
* MySkullRunnethOver: Donna. ''Damn''.
* MythologyGag: Even though in this phrase it is technically referring to the same incarnation of the Doctor, the line "Three doctors?" evokes the old crossover episodes.
* NakedOnArrival: The Doctor Clone.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Had Davros not fired at Donna, his victory would have been assured. To be fair, though, he couldn't have known that the Doctor had his hand cut off several series ago, that he had been shot and forced to regenerate, that he chose to dump his regeneration energy into that severed hand or that Donna herself inadvertently triggered a spontaneous metacrisis to create a Doctor clone. (The Doctor ''himself'' didn't have a clue until the TARDIS materialised.) Even if he had somehow guessed at ''that'' there was no way he'd know that the metacrisis was two-way, and that zapping Donna would trigger the Time Lord brain in Donna. ForWantOfANail, he'd have won, but he just [[DidntSeeThatComing couldn't see it coming.]]
* NoEndorHolocaust: Dragging the Earth at super-light speeds across half the Universe would probably cause a little more trouble than a mild earthquake. (Presumably the TARDIS extended its InertialDampening, big-time.) Just dragging it out of the moon's influence would cause endless disasters. (And the moon shouldn't be there any more when they put the Earth back.)
* NotSoDifferent: Davros tries to pull this one on The Doctor. Since Davros is an OmnicidalManiac, though, it doesn't really come off.
* NothingCanStopUsNow: Davros
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Dalek Caan may well be completely crazy (the script never really says one way or the other), but he is also way, way more in control of events than anyone thinks it's possible for him to be until it's too late for Davros or the Daleks to stop him. This is pretty much the only reason the universe gets out alive.
* OmnicidalManiac: "The DESTRUCTION! OF REALITY! ITSEEEELLLLLFFF!!!" Davros has been an OmnicidalManiac for quite some time. Now that he's capable of destroying reality, [[LargeHam he's overjoyed.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The Doctor, of all people, in the scene at Bad Wolf Bay, as David Tennant lapses into a Scottish accent after three solid years of credible Estuary.
* PrematureEncapsulation
* PowerOfFriendship: All of the Doctor's previous companions have shown that they're quite willing to die (in some cases, repeatedly) to protect him. This episode puts a subversive twist on this with the claim by Davros that the Doctor basically turns everyone who loves him into living weapons for his cause.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Same as the last episode, with Noel Clarke and Camille Coduri added post-titles.
* ProphecyTwist
** "That version of Donna is dead." "The end of everything (Dalek)".
** Threefold Man... and all this time people thought a previous Doctor was coming back.
** Same for Doctor-Donna, which about everyone assumed was the Ood being incapable of telling the two apart.
** "Most faithful companion", also. The TARDIS "died" (or was declared so); his human version went to Pete's World (when Rose did, she was considered "dead"); the Donna that travelled with the Doctor, who vanished along with Doctor-Donna. Which is, as the name says, partly the Doctor himself. It's more of a Prophecy Wham than a Twist.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Davros' hammy MotiveRant.
* PutOnABus: Everyone bar the Doctor.
* ResetButton
** The Doctor mind-wiping Donna.
** Conspicuously avoided was resetting many of the other important happenings in the episode, to the point where it's an Aversion bordering on the Subversion.
** The Doctor blocking Jack's teleporter again definitely fits, though.
** The Dalek invasion(s) got erased from history and memory briefly in series 5, but presumably restored at the end of it.
** ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' has confirmed that there was indeed no "Reset" and that the human race is now fully aware of the existence of aliens.
* RuleOfThree
** It only takes three Osterhagen Stations to activate the Osterhagen Key Fail-safe.
** We also have three instances of the Tenth Doctor.
** The daleks are also using 27=3^3 planets to power their reality bomb.
* RunningGagStumbles: PlayedForDrama. The Tenth Doctor's previous series each ended with him bidding farewell to his companion and getting back to business in the TARDIS, only for [[MoodWhiplash an unexpected and comical]] {{cliffhanger}} to ensue. In this finale, however, he parts ways with Donna, somberly returns to the TARDIS, and then...episode's over.
* RunningTheAsylum
* SelfDestructMechanism: The Earth has one.
* ShoutOut: Davros is basically [[Franchise/StarWars Emperor Palpatine]] in a hover-chair. The melted face, the constant talk of fulfilling destiny, and he even shoots lightning!
* SignificantAnagram: "Osterhagen", as in the Osterhagen Key, is an anagram of "Earth's Gone".
* SomeKindOfForceField: Trapping our heroes.
* SoulFragment
* StunnedSilence: The reaction of Donna, Rose and Captain Jack when the Doctor regenerates into... himself.
* SuicideByCop: Dalek Caan's prophecies were just a ruse to create a situation where his entire race (and Davros) were completely exterminated as he had finally realized that the universe would be a ''much'' better place without them around.
* {{Tearjerker}}: Donna finally realising how special and important she is and then having to forget all of her time with The Doctor, and leave him alone again.
* TechnoBabble: Laid on with a trowel. Doctor-Donna is the guiltiest of the group.
* TemptingFate: Davros: [[NothingCanStopUsNow "AND NOTHING CAN STOP THE DETONATION! NOTHING! AND NO ONE!"]] Honestly, he was ''begging'' for it.
* ThereIsAnother: There are always more Daleks.
* TookALevelInBadass
** Gwen and Ianto taking on the Dalek with G36s.
** This entire episode goes out of its way to establish the position of ex-companion as a badass prestige class, even giving them a cool collective name as "The Children of Time."
** Donna had already taken a level in badass during her time with the Doctor, but she takes ''another'' level when she becomes imbued with his consciousness. Doctor-Donna is a glorious thing to see. Too bad it has to result in a ResetButton for her personality.
* TranslationConvention: Averted with the German-speaking Daleks. The TARDIS's UniversalTranslator only works when the Doctor is present.
* TrueCompanions: The "children of time".
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: "Three doctors?" Jack: "I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now."
* TwoKeyedLock: It takes three Osterhagen Stations to activate the Osterhagen Key Fail-safe.
* UnwittingPawn
** Dalek Supreme, who should know better than to trust the wild prophecies of a madman. Well, he ''does'' know better, and initially dismisses Caan. Davros however claims that Caan "only speaks the truth", and can't imagine that one of his creations would betray him. [[GenreBlind Again]].
** Davros, outsmarted by his own creation in the most thorough way since the character's introduction.
* VictoryGuidedAmnesia
* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the Mice]]
** Of the Doctor's companions on Earth at this time who have faced the Fell Saltshakers, we know that Sarah Jane, Rose, Jack and Martha survived and that Donna died FromACertainPointOfView. What were the other 20th century Earth companions (many of whom were confirmed to be active as of the fourth series of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'') doing?
** We never exactly find what happened on the other planets the Daleks stole. However a comic-strip later that year The Forgotten does give some information about what happened on one of the worlds.
* YouAreNotAlone: Sarah Jane reminds the Doctor:
-->'''Sarah Jane:''' You know, you act like such a lonely man, but look at you! You've got the biggest family on Earth!
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When we last left our heroes, things looked grim. Sarah Jane was about to get gunned down in her car, Gwen and Ianto's MoreDakka was not going to cut it and the Doctor was regenerating. Well, Torchwood gets protected by a nifty program Tosh designed, Mickey and Jackie materialise with their {{BFG}}s just in time to save Sarah Jane, and Ten regenerates... back into Ten.
Wait, what? Apparently, since the Doctor's hand-in-a-jar is [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E6TheDoctorsDaughter kept in the control room]], he could use it to heal without changing. He simply directed the excess energy into the hand, instead of into a whole new body. Everyone is relieved that Ten is still Ten. But a regeneration is still a regeneration, and he won't be getting it back.
The Daleks surround the TARDIS, suck out its power and take them to the Crucible, the Daleks' base ship. Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie decide to go along, and some helpful Daleks take them there too.
Meanwhile, Commando Martha says goodbye to her mother and teleports to Germany, where we are treated to [[RuleOfCool Daleks speaking German]]. And Martha speaking German. She avoids a prophetic woman babbling about nightmares and gets to the Osterhagen station with a mysterious device called the Osterhagen key.
The Doctor, Jack, Rose and Donna are surrounded by Daleks in the Crucible and step out of the TARDIS to face them. Donna is distracted by the sound of a heartbeat, and gets stuck inside the TARDIS. The Daleks open up a trap door and the TARDIS (comically, really) gets flushed into the core of the Crucible. Donna is trapped in the burning TARDIS. She looks over at the hand and reaches out to touch it. The jar bursts, and the hand is enveloped in a golden light that seems to be forming... a new body! It's the Doctor!
->'''Donna:''' It's you!\\
'''Doctor Clone:''' Oh yes!\\
'''Donna:''' You're naked!\\
'''Doctor Clone:''' ''Oh yes!''
The Doctor Clone dematerialises the TARDIS just in time, but everyone else thinks it has been destroyed. Jack lets himself get killed by a Dalek and plays possum, hoping to infiltrate the base. The Daleks take the Doctor and Rose to Davros and sweep Jack in the trash.
Back on the TARDIS, the Doctor Clone finds some clothes (specifically, the blue outfit), and tries to explain himself to Donna.
->'''Donna:''' You are bonkers! Is that what Time Lords do? Lop a bit off, and grow another one? You're like worms!
Apparently, when Donna touched Handy, there was a "instantaneous biological metacrisis" and the Doctor Clone grew out of Donna. As a result, he talks a bit like her too.
->'''Donna:''' Oi! Watch it, space man!\\
'''Doctor Clone:''' Oi! Watch it, Earth girl! Ooh... I sound like you!
More than that, New Ten has only got one heart. ("Oh, that's disgusting.") Apparently, he's part Time Lord, part human. And he explains to Donna how special she is for being part of him now. She's finally starting to believe it a little.
Back at the crucible, Davros gives the Doctor a briefing on their plan. Apparently all the 27 planets combined form a "reality bomb" that dissolves every form of matter. Davros gets really excited and [[ChewingTheScenery chews on every available piece of scenery]]. But the Doctor realises that Davros isn't remotely in charge of his creatures any more. He was taken out of the Time War by [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks Dalek Caan]], who stared into Time itself, neatly mirroring [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E13ThePartingOfTheWays the way Rose saved the Doctor from the Daleks once]]. But Dalek Caan didn't have a Time Lord around to take Time itself away again, and he went ''completely mad'' in the process. Davros is now little more than the Daleks' "pet": a source of DNA cells to rebuild the Dalek race, but locked in the basement by his own offspring. Anyway, Davros explains that the 27 stolen planets form a compression field which can be released as a wave with the power to cancel out the electrical energy of atoms, reducing all matter into dust and ''then'' turning the dust into atoms and the atoms into nothing. The resulting "reality bomb" has the potential to keep travelling forever across all universe and even creep its way into ''parallel universes'', destroying all life and matter in existence, until only the Daleks remain.
The Doctor's friends haven't given up yet. Jack, Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie ''will'' use Sarah Jane's [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E7E8WhateverHappenedToSarahJane Veran necklace]] (which contains a crystallised ''nova explosion'') to blow up the Crucible (including themselves) if Davros doesn't stop. Similarly, Martha Jones ''will'' use the Osterhagen key to activate a doomsday device that will blow up the Earth (including herself) and put everyone out of their misery ''and'' leaving Davros stuck with just 26 planets: not enough to power up his reality bomb. Unfortunately, these threats work well with Davros' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, as Davros accuses the Doctor of being a TechnicalPacifist while his friends have become tools of violence. The Doctor remembers all the people who died to save his life during the New Series. But regardless of all that, the Doctor's friends' plans come to naught, as they are immediately zapped to the Vault by the Daleks.
And suddenly, the TARDIS materialises and the Doctor Clone runs forward with their new Dalek-killing gun. But Davros, in true [[Franchise/StarWars Emperor]] fashion, can shoot lightning out of his hands, and he zaps the Doctor Clone and Donna. The reality bomb goes into its final countdown and...
Nothing happens.
Donna stopped it! Even though she used to not even be able to change a plug, Davros' lightning triggered the ''other'' half of the metacrisis: when she activated the energy in the hand, part of her became filled with Time Lord essence. Now in possession of an active Time Lord mind, she's able to come up with Dalek-disabling solutions lightning fast with a huge surge of techno-babble. So that's [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E3PlanetOfTheOod what the Ood were talking about]]!
->'''Doctor-Donna:''' Did I ever tell you, best temp in Chiswick? A hundred words a minute!
As they get into the TARDIS, the Doctor Clone decides that even without their reality bomb, the Dalek empire is still a monstrous threat against the universe, so he tampers with the Crucible's control's panel to unleash a lethal energy feedback that blow up ''all'' the Daleks, to the utter horror of the original Doctor, who ''really'' doesn't like to be reminded of what he did in the Time War. The Doctor offers Davros a chance to be saved, but Davros chooses to stay behind and die on the exploding Crucible, bitterly cursing the Doctor and naming him "The destroyer of worlds!".
All the planets are sent home, but Earth ''just'' doesn't make it before the teleportation device gets blasted. So, they decide to turn the TARDIS into an Earth tow boat. In Cardiff, Torchwood Three uses the Cardiff Rift to provide massive amounts of energy. The Doctor properly introduces himself to Ianto and Gwen through their video connection, and he and Rose are happy to see that [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E3TheUnquietDead Gwyneth]] has a 21st century relative. In Ealing, K-9 and Luke provide the supercomputer Mr Smith with all the TARDIS data needed to get the Earth back home. Everyone gathers around the TARDIS core to help fly the Earth back home. (Well, all except Jackie, who isn't allowed near the controls.) Everyone hugs everyone. Donna especially hugs Jack a lot.
Sarah Jane heads back home to Luke. The Doctor blocks Jack's teleportation wrist watch again. Martha promises to destroy the Ostenhagen key and walks off with Jack (whose story continues in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', [[Recap/TorchwoodS3E1DayOne "Day One")]]. Mickey realises that he's finally done following Rose around and... starts following Martha around. The TARDIS heads back to alternate dimension Norway to drop off Rose and Jackie. Rose doesn't want to leave the Doctor, but the Doctor offers her a nice consolation prize of the Doctor Clone, because the Doctor feels that this version of himself is a bit too genocide-happy (much like he himself used to be) and needs a Rose in his life to cure that. The Doctor Clone is also part ''human'', able to age, and willing to spend his life with Rose from now on. This doesn't sit quite right with Rose yet. She begs the two Doctors to finally tell her [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday what he wanted to say to her last time]], after she said "I love you" to him. The Doctor still CannotSpitItOut. [[note]]Rose: 0. Little shops: 3.[[/note]] The Doctor Clone whispers it into her ear, and although we can't hear it, she's happy enough and responds by snogging him.
In the TARDIS, Doctor-Donna is starting to exhibit some problems, as her behaviour becomes hyperactive and she literally can't stop talking or focus on a single matter. Her Time Lord brain is overloading her human body, which, as the doctor solemnly explains, is the reason why there never has been a human/Time Lord fusion before. And there's only one way to save Donna's life. She begs and pleads, but the Doctor takes her into his arms and gently wipes her memories. She can never remember who she was, or anything about the Doctor, or she'll ''burn up.'' She goes back to the way she used to be, and she can never know about how much she saved the universe or how amazing she was. The Doctor takes her home, where she turns into her old self... her ''old'' old self, loud and crass... And [[FridgeHorror someone's going to have to tell her that she's missed two full years, and that her fiancée and her father are dead]], that is, if the memory-wiping was thorough enough to blank out that much. The Doctor tells Donna's mother to be ''nice'' to her for a change, bids Wilf farewell and steps out of their lives. (For now.)
The Doctor goes off, once again on his own. He takes off his jacket, soaked to the brim in rain... just like his morale.
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* ActingForTwo: David Tennant as both Doctors.
* AndStarring: Elisabeth Sladen again.
* ApocalypseHow: The Daleks threaten a class 5 omniversal (complete physical destruction of all matter in any form across all possible universes) though it may very well "only" have destroyed a finite number of universes, making the devastation multiversal.
* ArcWords: Pretty much all of them for this season.
* AskAStupidQuestion
-->'''Jackie:''' I was pregnant, do you remember? Had a baby boy.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Ah! Brilliant. What'd you call him?\\
'''Jackie:''' Doctor.\\
'''The Doctor:''' ''Really?''\\
'''Jackie:''' No, you plum. He's called Tony.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: A couple of grammar mistakes on the German and while "Exterminieren" is a German word, it's rarely used in that language. Technically, not grammar mistakes; the Daleks are aliens and have, according to the series at least, never spoken German before. A few errors can be allowed.
** They did, perhaps understandably, miss a trick with 'Exterminieren!' in place of 'Vernichten!'; both words mean the same, "to exterminate", but the latter word is cognate to ''n.'' 'Vernichtung', a word with some [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany nasty historical overtones]] which fit very neatly in line with Terry Nation's original vision of the Daleks. On the other hand, an English monoglot can understand 'Exterminieren!' immediately, which is reason enough to favor it in a British show even without considering the historical baggage 'Vernichten!' might stir up. (If the Daleks are repeatedly screaming one word over and over, what ''else'' could it mean? But we do want to sell the programme in Germany, too.)
* BackForTheFinale: The episode sees the return of every former companion from the previous four series and many recurring characters. The opening credits list Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/CatherineTate, Creator/FreemaAgyeman, Creator/JohnBarrowman, Creator/ElisabethSladen ''and'' Music/BilliePiper -- everyone who has ever been credited in the opening since the revival first began, with the exception of Creator/ChristopherEccleston and the addition of Sladen. Also back are Mickey, Jackie, Wilf, Harriet Jones and basically every recurring character in the revival, [[CrisisCrossover plus]] Gwen and Ianto from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and Luke, K-9 and Mr Smith from ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''. Whew!
* {{Badass}}
** The ''alte Frau'' who met Martha at the castle; when the garrison fled, she took their duty upon herself, and further still came within an ace of shooting Martha dead to ensure the Osterhagen Key would not be used.
** Jackie takes a level in this too. Now she blows up Daleks.
* {{BFG}}
** Rose has one of these. Jack's is pretty big too.
---> '''Rose''': Hello boys! Do you like my gun?
** Mickey and ''Jackie'' of all people even have {{BFG}}s. They're endemic.
* BigDamnHeroes: Mickey and Jackie saving Sarah Jane Smith from a pair of Daleks early on.
* BilingualBonus: The German dialogue. Translation available on the BBC website.
* BittersweetEnding: Rose and the Doctor are finally reunited, but he has to watch her in the arms of another man and leave her behind forever. Donna saved not only the entire Earth (and the other 26 planets) but all of ''creation'', but can't remember or else she'll burn up. So she has no idea how important she is, and the Doctor's on his own again. Sarah Jane points out to the Doctor that he has many friends who who love him, quite a few of whom remain on Earth, in the main universe, and with their memories intact. The Doctor then goes to travel alone and doesn't see any of them again until his death.
* BreakTheCutie: The Universe really hates Ten. C'mon, Davros' ReasonYouSuckSpeech was bordering on MindRape.
* CallBack
** The Reality Bomb annihilates humans with the same effect as Bad Wolf/Rose annihilated Daleks with.
** Also, the BFG that Jack uses is the old Defabricator he turned into a gun and used on one Dalek in "Parting of the Ways".
** A very small one: Sarah Jane and Rose are happy to see each other.
* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling the Old Woman Out]]: The Doctor lets Sylvia have it for her awful treatment of Donna.
* CannotSpitItOut: The Doctor can't complete the sentence "Rose Tyler..." from "Doomsday". Handy, however, can. Possibly subverted in that he may have just wanted to make sure Rose went with and accepted Handy.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The show finally gets its last bit of mileage out of the Doctor's lost hand.
* CloningBlues: Subverted: the Other Doctor doesn't angst about how he isn't real, although Rose initially does. This dynamic is shown again in series 6, with the Doctor and his clone trusting each other completely right from the start.
* ContinuityPorn: So much, so much, so much! FlashBack to everyone who sacrificed themselves for the Doctor in the new series, Davros recognizing Sarah from "Genesis" and return to Bad Wolf Bay.
** There's also a bit of a nod to "The Unquiet Dead"; apparently Gwen is spatial genetic multiplicity (read: [[UncannyFamilyResemblance identical relative]]) of Gwyneth.
** In a piece of AscendedFanon, we see the TARDIS flown by as many people as it's meant to be ''for the first time in 45 years''.
** Doctor-Donna remembers how to fix the TARDIS' Chameleon circuit, like the Sixth incarnation. Since she has the Doctor's mind it's implied that he '''can''' fix the Tardis Chameleon circuit, he just doesn't want to as he likes the police-box shape.
** Doctor-Donna's fate is sealed as her mind has absorbed too much information to possibly contain. It's a very similar fate to Bad Wolf/Rose, though the solution is somewhat different.
** Also, Sarah Jane was given the warp necklace thingy by a "Veran soothsayer"; the same one who gave her the puzzle box in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'''s "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?"
** Ten asks Rose what happened in the [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universe]] since they run a few hours ahead of the regular universe. He previously [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno used this knowledge]] to save the Earth from man-made catastrophic volcanic eruptions many incarnations ago.
* CrisisCrossover: Ianto, Jack and Gwen from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Sarah Jane, Luke and Mr Smith from ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and Rose, Martha, Mickey and Harriet Jones and basically everyone connected to the show since RTD got hold of it all turn up. Even K9 gets to appear. ''Crisis of Infinite Doctors'', perhaps?
* DeusExMachina
** K9 being called out at exactly the moment he's needed. Good dog!
** And the hand becoming another Doctor just in time to save the TARDIS. Although technically that would be a Deus ex Manu.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Davros certainly didn't know that the Doctor had dumped regeneration energy into the hand. Only the Doctor clone and Donna knew that it had set the hand up to instantly grow a new Doctor through spontaneous metacrisis (he only knew after the fact, and only Donna knew when she was told). NOBODY knew that zapping Donna after all of that happened would trigger the Time Lord brain in Donna.
* DiscontinuityNod
** There has never been a being that's half-human/half-Time Lord before. [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTvMovie Never ever ever.]] And the Doctor ''certainly'' isn't one.
** Davros being little more than a slave to the Daleks, and in fact being taken for a ride by Caan, could also be a similar nod to the post-Davros Dalek situation. Many fans lamented that after "Genesis", the Daleks had become nothing more than thugs for Davros himself, although this was rectified somewhat in "Revelation" and "Remembrance".
* DisneyDeath: The Doctor
* DragonInChief: Inversion. The Doctor mocks Davros as the Daleks' "pet", and he is actually a prisoner, kept alive only to help them construct the Reality Bomb and will likely be exterminated once the plan is complete. He is not TheDragon in any meaningful sense, but nonetheless he is a minion serving as the ''de facto'' main antagonist.
* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: "Only one planet left! Oh, and [[GenreSavvy guess which one]]." A literal example too, as the Medusa Cascade is at the centre of all creation.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: the Daleks prevent Martha Jones from using the Osterhagen Key doomsday device. Just as well.
* EasyAmnesia: {{Inverted}}. Donna's memory isn't wiped that easily, but anything that reminds her of her travels with the Doctor will restore it and kill her.
* EditedForSyndication: The CBS Canadian broadcast of the episode cut 20 minutes out of the episode for a hour-long broadcast with commercials. [[http://dwin.org/home/news/article/What_got_cut_from_Journey_s_End A list of the cuts is here.]]
* EpicFail: Both Sarah Jane and UNIT have gotten their hands on two devastating super-weapons, the Warpstar that will destroy the Dalek mother ship and the Osterhagen Key that will destroy the Earth (thus ruining the Dalek's plans), respectively; Sarah Jane allied with Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler to infiltrate the ship and Martha Jones risked capture and death in Dalek-occupied Germany to be in position to activate the Key. Much of the episode focuses on the efforts of several characters to get in the right position to use them, and when the moment comes many of them contact the Daleks via video link to warn them to back off or die. It seems that the Daleks' evil plan is finished... except that Davros just transports everyone to his vault, capturing them and rendering both weapons useless. Then Donna and Doctor Clone show up with their Dalek-destroying weapon... only to get zapped and the weapon destroyed.
* EvilSoundsDeep: The Supreme Dalek has one of the deepest Dalek voices yet.
* FanficMagnet
* FanService: Naked Doctor clone. Well not really fanservice, but as damn close as you're ever going to get, unfortunately.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Yet another trope that applies to Donna's metacrisis.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dalek Caan's declaration of NO MORE!! after having plunged through the Time War would be revisited much later during the 50th Anniversary Special
* GambitRoulette: Dalek Caan's scheme to wipe out all the Daleks by creating a new Dalek empire. Being a prophet probably helped.
* GenreSavvy: Mickey is quick to realise that a Human-Doctor on board would be dropped off with Rose in the alternate universe.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Dalek Caan. Subverted. He knows exactly what he is doing.
* GratuitousGerman: EXTERMINIEREN!
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Donna saved ''all of reality'', but can never know it, not ever, because then she'll die.
* HalfHumanHybrid: New Doctor and Doctor Donna, sort of.
* HamToHamCombat: Possibly one of the most glorious examples in the series' history, with Doctor-Donna, Davros, the Daleks and the Doctor himself being particularly excellent sources.
* HeelFaceTurn / HeelRealization: Dalek Caan. Sort of. Combined with TheChessmaster and ThePlan. Notable in that he's essentially the first Dalek to do so of his own free will, not involving genetic mumbo-jumbo. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks This after killing his former superior, Dalek Sec, for basically the same thing]].
-->'''Davros:''' (''shocked'') You betrayed the Daleks?\\
'''Dalek Caan:''' I ''saw'' the Daleks. What we have done throughout time and space. I saw the truth of us, creator, and I decreed: No more!
* HeroicSacrifice and MoreExpendableThanYou: Given a ContinuityNod / LampshadeHanging.
* HybridPower: The Doctor undergoes a "biological meta-crisis" in which he uses regeneration energy to form a clone which has some of Donna's personality. More importantly, the same process gives Donna the Doctor's mental prowess, which, combined with her "gut instinct" as a human, makes her a hypergenius capable of things even the Doctor would never think to do. Unfortunately, the human-Time Lord meta-crisis proves to be unstable, and would kill her if she didn't have her [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory erased]].
* IronicEcho: "I was going to be with you, forever."
* JustFollowingOrders: Martha is going to destroy the Earth. She says, "I'm a member of UNIT, and they gave me the Osterhagen Key. I've got to do my job. I'm sorry." Next scene, where is she? Near '''Nuremberg'''.
* LargeHam: Even discounting the usual suspects, Doctor-Donna and Davros could have stocked a deli section all by themselves.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: PlayedWith. The Doctor can't just wipe Donna's memories of his consciousness; he has to wipe ''all'' of her memories of him and their travels together. If she ever remembers anything about him, she would end up remembering everything and would die.
* LeftForDead: Davros and Dalek Caan. After all, NoOneCouldSurviveThat, right? It's not like there's such thing as JokerImmunity, ThereIsAnother, BackFromTheDead or -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOfTheDaleks c'mon, you just know this isn't the end of the Daleks]]. WordOfGod has already stated that Davros survived. Davies admitted he doesn't want to kill such a classic villain off. Odds are good that Dalek Caan survived somehow, too.
* LightningCanDoAnything
* MadOracle: Dalek Caan. Subverted -- he is an oracle and may be mad but he is much more in control of events than anyone expects.
* MercyKill: What the Osterhagen key is intended to do to Earth and humanity.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Davros even calls the Doctor that (minus the "Mike Nelson" bit, of course).
* MixAndMatchMan: The Doctor + Donna clone.
* MoodWhiplash: Like hell. Surprisingly, this is ''averted'' in the final moments, with The Doctor still looking rather glum over Donna's LaserGuidedAmnesia. He pulls the lever on the TARDIS to leave, then the credits roll, and ''that's it.'' Unlike the last three series finales, the somber mood is not suddenly swept away by bizarre hijinks.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Apparently everybody can help with the TARDIS... except Jackie. She should just stand over there... thanks.
* MySkullRunnethOver: Donna. ''Damn''.
* MythologyGag: Even though in this phrase it is technically referring to the same incarnation of the Doctor, the line "Three doctors?" evokes the old crossover episodes.
* NakedOnArrival: The Doctor Clone.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Had Davros not fired at Donna, his victory would have been assured. To be fair, though, he couldn't have known that the Doctor had his hand cut off several series ago, that he had been shot and forced to regenerate, that he chose to dump his regeneration energy into that severed hand or that Donna herself inadvertently triggered a spontaneous metacrisis to create a Doctor clone. (The Doctor ''himself'' didn't have a clue until the TARDIS materialised.) Even if he had somehow guessed at ''that'' there was no way he'd know that the metacrisis was two-way, and that zapping Donna would trigger the Time Lord brain in Donna. ForWantOfANail, he'd have won, but he just [[DidntSeeThatComing couldn't see it coming.]]
* NoEndorHolocaust: Dragging the Earth at super-light speeds across half the Universe would probably cause a little more trouble than a mild earthquake. (Presumably the TARDIS extended its InertialDampening, big-time.) Just dragging it out of the moon's influence would cause endless disasters. (And the moon shouldn't be there any more when they put the Earth back.)
* NotSoDifferent: Davros tries to pull this one on The Doctor. Since Davros is an OmnicidalManiac, though, it doesn't really come off.
* NothingCanStopUsNow: Davros
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Dalek Caan may well be completely crazy (the script never really says one way or the other), but he is also way, way more in control of events than anyone thinks it's possible for him to be until it's too late for Davros or the Daleks to stop him. This is pretty much the only reason the universe gets out alive.
* OmnicidalManiac: "The DESTRUCTION! OF REALITY! ITSEEEELLLLLFFF!!!" Davros has been an OmnicidalManiac for quite some time. Now that he's capable of destroying reality, [[LargeHam he's overjoyed.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The Doctor, of all people, in the scene at Bad Wolf Bay, as David Tennant lapses into a Scottish accent after three solid years of credible Estuary.
* PrematureEncapsulation
* PowerOfFriendship: All of the Doctor's previous companions have shown that they're quite willing to die (in some cases, repeatedly) to protect him. This episode puts a subversive twist on this with the claim by Davros that the Doctor basically turns everyone who loves him into living weapons for his cause.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Same as the last episode, with Noel Clarke and Camille Coduri added post-titles.
* ProphecyTwist
** "That version of Donna is dead." "The end of everything (Dalek)".
** Threefold Man... and all this time people thought a previous Doctor was coming back.
** Same for Doctor-Donna, which about everyone assumed was the Ood being incapable of telling the two apart.
** "Most faithful companion", also. The TARDIS "died" (or was declared so); his human version went to Pete's World (when Rose did, she was considered "dead"); the Donna that travelled with the Doctor, who vanished along with Doctor-Donna. Which is, as the name says, partly the Doctor himself. It's more of a Prophecy Wham than a Twist.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Davros' hammy MotiveRant.
* PutOnABus: Everyone bar the Doctor.
* ResetButton
** The Doctor mind-wiping Donna.
** Conspicuously avoided was resetting many of the other important happenings in the episode, to the point where it's an Aversion bordering on the Subversion.
** The Doctor blocking Jack's teleporter again definitely fits, though.
** The Dalek invasion(s) got erased from history and memory briefly in series 5, but presumably restored at the end of it.
** ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' has confirmed that there was indeed no "Reset" and that the human race is now fully aware of the existence of aliens.
* RuleOfThree
** It only takes three Osterhagen Stations to activate the Osterhagen Key Fail-safe.
** We also have three instances of the Tenth Doctor.
** The daleks are also using 27=3^3 planets to power their reality bomb.
* RunningGagStumbles: PlayedForDrama. The Tenth Doctor's previous series each ended with him bidding farewell to his companion and getting back to business in the TARDIS, only for [[MoodWhiplash an unexpected and comical]] {{cliffhanger}} to ensue. In this finale, however, he parts ways with Donna, somberly returns to the TARDIS, and then...episode's over.
* RunningTheAsylum
* SelfDestructMechanism: The Earth has one.
* ShoutOut: Davros is basically [[Franchise/StarWars Emperor Palpatine]] in a hover-chair. The melted face, the constant talk of fulfilling destiny, and he even shoots lightning!
* SignificantAnagram: "Osterhagen", as in the Osterhagen Key, is an anagram of "Earth's Gone".
* SomeKindOfForceField: Trapping our heroes.
* SoulFragment
* StunnedSilence: The reaction of Donna, Rose and Captain Jack when the Doctor regenerates into... himself.
* SuicideByCop: Dalek Caan's prophecies were just a ruse to create a situation where his entire race (and Davros) were completely exterminated as he had finally realized that the universe would be a ''much'' better place without them around.
* {{Tearjerker}}: Donna finally realising how special and important she is and then having to forget all of her time with The Doctor, and leave him alone again.
* TechnoBabble: Laid on with a trowel. Doctor-Donna is the guiltiest of the group.
* TemptingFate: Davros: [[NothingCanStopUsNow "AND NOTHING CAN STOP THE DETONATION! NOTHING! AND NO ONE!"]] Honestly, he was ''begging'' for it.
* ThereIsAnother: There are always more Daleks.
* TookALevelInBadass
** Gwen and Ianto taking on the Dalek with G36s.
** This entire episode goes out of its way to establish the position of ex-companion as a badass prestige class, even giving them a cool collective name as "The Children of Time."
** Donna had already taken a level in badass during her time with the Doctor, but she takes ''another'' level when she becomes imbued with his consciousness. Doctor-Donna is a glorious thing to see. Too bad it has to result in a ResetButton for her personality.
* TranslationConvention: Averted with the German-speaking Daleks. The TARDIS's UniversalTranslator only works when the Doctor is present.
* TrueCompanions: The "children of time".
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: "Three doctors?" Jack: "I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now."
* TwoKeyedLock: It takes three Osterhagen Stations to activate the Osterhagen Key Fail-safe.
* UnwittingPawn
** Dalek Supreme, who should know better than to trust the wild prophecies of a madman. Well, he ''does'' know better, and initially dismisses Caan. Davros however claims that Caan "only speaks the truth", and can't imagine that one of his creations would betray him. [[GenreBlind Again]].
** Davros, outsmarted by his own creation in the most thorough way since the character's introduction.
* VictoryGuidedAmnesia
* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the Mice]]
** Of the Doctor's companions on Earth at this time who have faced the Fell Saltshakers, we know that Sarah Jane, Rose, Jack and Martha survived and that Donna died FromACertainPointOfView. What were the other 20th century Earth companions (many of whom were confirmed to be active as of the fourth series of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'') doing?
** We never exactly find what happened on the other planets the Daleks stole. However a comic-strip later that year The Forgotten does give some information about what happened on one of the worlds.
* YouAreNotAlone: Sarah Jane reminds the Doctor:
-->'''Sarah Jane:''' You know, you act like such a lonely man, but look at you! You've got the biggest family on Earth!
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** Especially when you notice just how much the Osterhagen Key resembles [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Moment]]. The Doctor still believes he blew up Gallifrey to stop the Daleks. It was the worst day of the Doctor's life, the thing he regrets the most and hates the most about himself. To see one of his Companions in the same position and feel he did that to her...no wonder it worked better than OmnicidalManiac Davros had any right to expect.
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* CallForward: The idea of the Doctor deciding the fate of an entire species because he did not have the long-term influence of human companions does not seem too out of place from the [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars Timelord Victorious]], doesn't it?
** Not significant at this point but the Doctor uses up [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor one regeneration]] to heal his body.
** Not significant at this point but the Doctor uses up [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor one regeneration]] to heal his body.
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** They did, perhaps understandably, miss a trick with 'Exterminieren!' in place of 'Vernichten!'; both words mean the same, "to exterminate", but the latter word is cognate to ''n.'' 'Vernichtung', a word with some [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany nasty historical overtones]] which fit very neatly in line with Terry Nation's original vision of the Daleks. On the other hand, an English monoglot can understand 'Exterminieren!' immediately, which is reason enough to favor it in a British show even without considering the historical baggage 'Vernichten!' might stir up.
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** They did, perhaps understandably, miss a trick with 'Exterminieren!' in place of 'Vernichten!'; both words mean the same, "to exterminate", but the latter word is cognate to ''n.'' 'Vernichtung', a word with some [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany nasty historical overtones]] which fit very neatly in line with Terry Nation's original vision of the Daleks. On the other hand, an English monoglot can understand 'Exterminieren!' immediately, which is reason enough to favor it in a British show even without considering the historical baggage 'Vernichten!' might stir up. (If the Daleks are repeatedly screaming one word over and over, what ''else'' could it mean? But we do want to sell the programme in Germany, too.)
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uuuuuh, that\'s the problem. She won\'t let go of something that will HORRIBLY kill her.
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* MindRape: While it's hard to ascribe such a heinous act to the Doctor, what he did to Donna falls under this. Yes, he did it to save her life. But she was just as intelligent as he was, understood the choices before her and DID NOT want him to wipe her memory. It wasn't just that she should have to go back to a life that never made her happy -- she didn't want to lose everything she'd built and learned. If he could have just wiped the Doctor-Donna aspect, she probably would have gone for it. But she was losing the person she'd become, the person she could actually believe was worthwhile. She knew all this and ''begged'' him not to. Essentially, she was saying she'd rather die as she'd become than live as she used to be, and he stole that choice from her.
** The Doctor's decision to overrule her wishes and wipe her mind, although she'd rather die, takes him another step closer to the arrogant self-righteousness of the [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars Time Lord Victorious.]]
** The Doctor's decision to overrule her wishes and wipe her mind, although she'd rather die, takes him another step closer to the arrogant self-righteousness of the [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars Time Lord Victorious.]]
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Not that it stopped the Cybermen from doing so without exploding both worlds.
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* KarmaHoudini: Rose never gets called on the fact she was trying to come back to our world before the barriers started breaking down despite the fact that the Doctor told her it would destroy both worlds. For risking the destruction of two worlds for a chance to see the Doctor, Rose gets her own Doctor.
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* RunningGagStumbles: PlayedForDrama. The Tenth Doctor's previous series each ended with him bidding farewell to his companion and getting back to business in the TARDIS, only for [[MoodWhiplash an unexpected and comical]] {{cliffhanger}} to ensue. In this finale, however, he parts ways with Donna, somberly returns to the TARDIS, and then...episode's over.
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:the Daleks]] prevent [[spoiler:Martha Jones]] from using [[spoiler:the Osterhagen Key doomsday device]]. Just as well.
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:the Daleks]] the Daleks prevent [[spoiler:Martha Jones]] Martha Jones from using [[spoiler:the the Osterhagen Key doomsday device]].device. Just as well.
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* FanService: Naked Doctor clone. Well not really fanservice, but as damn close as you're ever going to get, unfortunately. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger At least until next season.]]
* FixFic: The episode spawned its own flood of Fix Fics with [[spoiler:Donna regaining her memories]].
* FixFic: The episode spawned its own flood of Fix Fics with [[spoiler:Donna regaining her memories]].
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* MoodWhiplash: Like hell. Surprisingly, this is ''averted'' in the final moments, with The Doctor still looking rather glum over [[spoiler:Donna's LaserGuidedAmnesia]]. He pulls the lever on the TARDIS to leave, then the credits roll, and ''that's it.'' Unlike the last three series finales, the somber mood is not suddenly swept away by bizarre hijinks.
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* MoodWhiplash: Like hell. Surprisingly, this is ''averted'' in the final moments, with The Doctor still looking rather glum over [[spoiler:Donna's LaserGuidedAmnesia]].Donna's LaserGuidedAmnesia. He pulls the lever on the TARDIS to leave, then the credits roll, and ''that's it.'' Unlike the last three series finales, the somber mood is not suddenly swept away by bizarre hijinks.
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** Especially when you notice just how much the Osterhagen Key resembles [[Recap/DoctorWho50thAS"The Day of the Doctor" The Moment]]. The Doctor still believes he blew up Gallifrey to stop the Daleks. It was the worst day of the Doctor's life, the thing he regrets the most and hates the most about himself. To see one of his Companions in the same position and feel he did that to her...no wonder it worked better than OmnicidalManiac Davros had any right to expect.
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** Especially when you notice just how much the Osterhagen Key resembles [[Recap/DoctorWho50thAS"The Day of the Doctor" [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Moment]]. The Doctor still believes he blew up Gallifrey to stop the Daleks. It was the worst day of the Doctor's life, the thing he regrets the most and hates the most about himself. To see one of his Companions in the same position and feel he did that to her...no wonder it worked better than OmnicidalManiac Davros had any right to expect.
