- Complete Monster: In the novel, Scratchman, or "Scratch", revels in his role as the Devil itself. Scratch goes from universe to universe, corrupting everything within into corrupted shells of themselves so he may feed on their fear and turn them into broken "Sallows", soulless beings he controls. Having broken his entire universe and consumed everything there, Scratch intends to do the same to the Doctor's own while weaponizing the Doctor's own fear to break his very soul.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: It's highly unlikely that Dan Aykroyd had known of this script, so it's this trope that the "clear your mind so that the villain can't use anything against us... did you just get us an Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever by trying to be cute and think of something innocuous, you moron?" gag was played almost beat for beat in both the Scratchman treatment and the original Ghostbusters... just swap out "Ray Stantz" for "Harry Sullivan" and "Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man" for "A gentlemanly game of pinball" and the rest of the sequence is virtually identical.
- Scratchman is a Satanic Archetype with “Scratch” in his name, who appears as a man in a suit with a white orb for a head. A certain webcomic would end up featuring an eerily similar villain.
- Unexpected Character: It's not likely that anyone expected the Thirteenth Doctor to appear.
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