History Fanfic / TheLastGreatTimeWar

->''... Most of the Last Great Time War has been a mystery... Until now."''
-->--The prologue

!!The Last Great Time War contains examples of:
* AbsoluteXenophobe: The Daleks.
* AFateWorseThanDeath: There are myriad ways for this to happen in the Time War including RetGone, having one's timeline warped and becoming part of a [[EldritchAbomination Travesty]], and becoming [[ForeverWar trapped in time loops,]] [[AndIMustScream fighting and dying forever]] [[HopelessWar with no hope of escape.]]

* {{Anvilicious}}: {{Lampshaded}} at the beginning of Part !!!. "I think we've dropped enough sappy anvils for today."
* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Since much of the War is fought in the Time Vortex.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The Time Lords plot to do this while they [[spoiler:create a paradox so severe that it will destroy the rest of reality to ensure no enemies can follow them.]]

* TheAlliance: The former Temporal Alliance and the New Temporal Alliance.

* CosmicHorrorStory: One from the perspective of one of the cosmic horrors in question, but it's quite clear anyone not a side in the Time War is completely helpless before everyone who is.
** And those who are not helpless can't defeat each other, causing more and more paradoxes and disasters to appear.

* DesolationShot: There are several of these.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
* DirtyBusiness: The War Doctor's life.

* EldritchAbomination: Let's see?
** The Nightmare Child: a being, spawned from the nightmares of all that exist in universe,
** Skaro Degredations and Horde of Travesties: Daleks and other beings (possibly even Time Lords) respectively, who have their timelines so warped, that they become completely new beings; the latter want to ''eat timelines'' of their victims.
** The Could've Been King and his forces: beings who have suffered RetGone and turned into living ideas, able to change timelines and reality like nothing, and even absorb other beings into them. Bonus for The Could've Been King, who implied to be one even before his erasure by Rassilon.
** The [[spoiler:Eyes of Harmony]] also qualify, being sentient superweapons.
** And, of course, the Moment herself, the premier sentient superweapon of Time Lords. [[spoiler: It wiped every thing and all the participants of the Time War in one relative second (Mind you, the war is implied to have been fought in entire multiverse.)]] Also, just like in main universe, it has a conscience.

* TheEmpire: The Daleks, and later the Time Lords.
* EvilVersusEvil: The Dalek/Time Lord conflict devolves into this.
* FallenHero / HeWhoFightsMonsters: Rassilon and many Time Lords, as they cease to care about anyone who isn't them, so desperate to win the War.

* FixFic: Follows the premise that the War Doctor [[spoiler: ''really did'' destroy Gallifrey.]]
* ForbiddenChekhovsGun: The Moment.

* FlyingSaucer: The Dalek ships are these.
* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:The War Doctor decides that the only way for the War to end forever is to destroy every combatant.]]
** The first time, however, is when Could've Been King and his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres come to reality. The chapter's title lampshades this, "Beginning of the End''.

* GroundhogDayLoop: Much of the War becomes this.
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The War is this to all sides except the New Temporal Alliance to the Time Lords.

* HunterOfHisOwnKind: The War Doctor becomes this in Part III.

* LargeHam: The War Doctor, Rassilon, Davros, the Could've Been King, and several others.
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler: The Doctor in the Epilogue.]]
* LivingShadow: The Neverweres often appear as this.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The above-mentioned monsters.

* TheOathBreaker: The War Doctor sees himself as this, as do his later incarnations for a time. "He's the one who broke the promise!"
* OldSoldier: The War Doctor by the end of Part III.
* OmnicidalManiac: The Daleks and later [[spoiler: the Time Lords.]]
* ParadoxPerson: The Could've Been King and his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres.
* RealityBreakingParadox: [[spoiler:The Time Lords plot to use one to destroy all possible threats while they AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]
* RealityIsOutToLunch: The effects of the War cause this effect in many places.

* SceneryGorn: Too many examples to list.

* ShiningCity: The New Temporal Alliance Sanctuary, especially Phaidon.
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:The War Doctor destroys every civilization fighting in the Time War to end it for good.]]
** Before that, War Doctor cyberconverted prisoner Time Lords. He's not very happy about that.

** The 42nd Cyber Legion.
* StarKilling: One of the standard weapons used by the Daleks and Time Lords is the "stellar destructor," a device that blows up a star and leaves no neutron star or black hole behind.
* StuffBlowingUp: The story is ''full'' of this, ranging from grenades to galaxies.
* SoiledCityOnAHill: Follows Gallifrey's descent into becoming this.

* TemporalParadox: There are ''lots'' of these, since they are actually used as ''weapons.''

* WarFic: Obviously.

** The supernova cannon takes this up to eleven.

* WhereIWasBornAndRazed: [[spoiler:The War Doctor destroys Gallifrey at the end of Part III.]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The Moment's message to the War Doctor.

** The Could've Been King and his forces: beings who are retgoned and turned into living ideas, able to change timelines and reality like nothing, and even absorb other beings into them. Bonus for The Could've Been King, who implied to be one even before his erasure by Rassilon.

* ShoutOut: The Eighth Doctor has a collection of redstone crystals from Minecraft.

->''"This is the story of the the greatest of all wars ever fought. It raged for an eternity across all of time and space. This was the war that made the higher species weep with sorrow and terror, the war that made the mighty Eternals flee for their lives, the war that brought creation itself to its knees and threatened to consume everything.''

** The supernova cannon takes this UpToEleven.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:[[KillTHemAll The Time War is finally over]], and though the Warrior is severely traumatised, he begins being the Doctor again, and starts gradually recovering.]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"The War could only end if there was no one left alive who could fight it." The War Doctor goes from trying to save the Time Lords from themselves to deciding to KillThemAll.]]

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The Time Lord High Council before long.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:[[KillTHemAll The Time War is finally ended]], and though the Warrior is severely traumatised, he begins being the Doctor again, and starts gradually recovering.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: See CrowningMomentOfAwesome in YMMV.

* {{Anvillicious}}: {{Lampshaded}} at the beginning of Part !!!. "I think we've dropped enough sappy anvils for today."

* BigBad: Rassilon, the Dalek Emperor, and the Could've Been King.

** The Could've Been King and his forces: beings who are retgoned and turned into living ideas, able to change timelines and reality like a nothing, and even absorb other beings into them. Bonus for The Could've Been King , who implied to be one even before his erasure by Rassilon.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: When Rassilon is about to use The Moment to end the war, the weapon itself stops him from using it, questions his ethics, judges him unworthy of using it and imprisions him for the next million years.]]

** And, of course, the Moment herself, the premier sentient superweapon of Time Lords. [[spoiler: It wiped every thing and all the participants of the Time War in one relative second (Mind you, the war is implied to have been fought in all multiverse.]] Also, just like in main universe, it has a conscience.

* AFateWorseThanDeath: There are myriad ways for this to happen in the Time War including RetGone, having one's timeline warped and becoming part of a [[EldritchAbomination Travesty]], and becoming [[ForeverWar trapped in time loops, fighting and dying forever]] [[HopelessWar with no hope of escape.]]