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  • Complete Monster: "Wormwood" (Issues 266-271): The Pariah is an ancient Gallifreyan super weapon that developed a mind of its own and decided to destroy all life in the universe. After being banished to Earth and merging with Abraham White, the Pariah spends the next 3,500 years pushing him and his organization, the Threshold, onto a plan to turn all of space into a minefield, which would destroy every ship in the sky, in the meantime embarking on plans that would destroy humanity's ability to reason with each other and give the Daleks control of an artificial sun to destroy and unleash their parallel universe counterparts onto the universe. Facing down her successor Shayde, the Pariah proceeds to beat him to death, mocking gloating that she "broke Rassilon's favourite action figure". The Pariah then steals the TARDIS, using it to shunt the Moon forward a second in time, killing the members of the Threshold and ultimately threatening to destroy the entirety of reality itself.
  • Fanon Discontinuity: How many people treated the Sixth Doctor strip "The World Shapers", for its claim that the Cybermen were descended from the Voord of "The Keys of Marinus", which is often considered pointlessly over-complicated Continuity Porn (especially when compared to the Big Finish audio story Spare Parts, considered the definitive Cybermen origin story). It also had the rather sad (albeit heroic) final fate of Jamie. Then Marinus got namedropped in "The Doctor Falls" as another place the Cybermen arose - given how this story also presents Cybermen as evolving in many places independently, it seems to present both as equally valid (and in a knock-on implication, arguably reinforces it as the last Jamie story too, as no other medium has a story about his death).
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Quite a few moments.
    • The Eighth Doctor comics Master wasn't based on any real-world actor at the time, but retrospectively he looks quite a lot like Samuel L. Jackson as Stephen in Django Unchained.
  • Iron Woobie: Despite heavy angsting to begin with, by the time of Children of the Revolution, Izzy brushes off the body swap with a joke and even embraces her new abilities.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Destrii suffered horribly at the hands of her mother, grew up friendless on a world with the expectations of an entire nation dumped on her shoulders and had to fight for her life in constant gladiatorial battles. Despite all her misdeeds, you just end up wanting to give her a hug. She becomes an Iron Woobie later as her most noble moment yet is rewarded by her uncle, the one person she liked and trusted in her whole life, beating her to a bloody pulp and leaving her for dead.
  • Take That, Scrappy!: The multi-Doctor story "Time and Time Again" features Adric bumblingly trying to hit on Ace and getting threatened with bodily harm.
  • Wangst: Izzy, over not knowing the identities of her parents.
  • The Woobie:
    • Izzy. Despite a large dose of Wangst surrounding her adoption issues, she's rather understandably devastated by the body swap, as she faces the realization that she can never see her family and friends, or live a normal life again.
    • Kroton, part of one of the Universe's most dangerous races who is afraid to remember his life before.

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