History Fridge / DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice

** Down to the Daleks' CatchPhrase "Exterminate" might be an effect of the StableTimeLoop. Davros heard the Doctor use it in the past, and the Daleks got it from him, but the Doctor used it ''because'' of the Daleks.

--> '''The Doctor''': Yes, you have got to decide that you're going to live. [[{{Determinator}} Survival is just a choice]] -- choose it now...Tell me the name of the boy who is not going to die today!

** Related to this: why would the Daleks dismiss her claim that they would need a Time Lord/Lady to make full use of the TARDIS in their possession? Well, remember the Genesis Ark back in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]]--a piece of Gallifreyan technology which they used to release the Daleks trapped in the Time War? It wasn't activated by the Doctor, but by Mickey, a ''human time-traveller''--because technology like these don't really discriminate. The Daleks are pretty much well-versed with Time Lord technology than we normally give them credit for, and so having a loose-cannon Time Lord like Missy as TheQuisling is not a wise thing to do for them.

* After decades of fans, and even an occasional in-Verse character, making snarky remarks about Daleks' suction-cup manipulators, this episode may have actually come up with a justification for why Davros designed them that way in the first place. Most robotic appendages suited for handling objects ought, for practicality's sake, to resemble hands in some way ... but Davros, as a small child, found himself trapped and desperate in a field of ''hand-mines''! Which means that, subconsciously, adult Davros still finds hands (or perhaps just artificial hands) to be '''scary''', and so has convinced himself that suction cups are a "superior" option to the sort of limbs that would remind him of that trauma. Likewise, neither his Daleks' eyestalks nor his own artificial eye look much like real ones, because memory of the hand-mine field makes EyesDoNotBelongThere a really uncomfortable trope for Davros.
* Missy's NoodleIncident references from the Doctor's youth Fridgily demonstrate that, brilliant though she is, Missy doesn't necessarily know ''everything''. She assumes Clara won't be able to tell which of the three references is a lie, but Clara (and the audience) know perfectly well that the Doctor's first incarnation was male: she and we saw him as a child in "Listen", and even heard two other Gallifreyans referring to him as a boy.
** It may actually not; if Missy is using "girl" as an insult -- girl is a ''human'' term, after all, and she and the Doctor are above that; they can be anything at any point if they so choose! -- to say that the Doctor's sad crying was him being "girly" then she's correct. The Doctor later reveals that he ''lost'' the moon and didn't steal it, backing up the idea.

*** Or she was lying about only one of the references being a lie.

* Several bits of FridgeBrilliant and FridgeHorror come into play if you consider how child-Davros's encounter with the Doctor may have [[StableTimeLoop timey-wimeyly]] influenced his then-future actions:

* Davros expresses admiration and pride in the Daleks, but is never seen actually talking to or directly commanding them. He's frequently been the leader of one side of a Dalek civil war, or never directly in charge due to being dead, or [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho072TerrorFirma possessed by a split personality that thinks it's a Dalek]]. He described his relationship to the Daleks as a father with pride towards his children for all their accomplishments.
* FridgeHorror/ FridgeBrilliance: Much as Clara may have given the Doctor his whole, "Fear makes companions of us all." ,[[NiceJobBreakingItHero the Doctor may well have given Davros his commitment to survival at all costs.]]

* Davros proves his memory of his initial confrontation with the Doctor by returning 12's sonic screwdriver. FridgeHorror sets in when it's clearly been damaged, as the tip of the screwdriver resembles the eyestalk and laser in Dalek casing. Davros reverse-engineered some of the Doctor's designs, further tying into the Doctor's guilt in the Daleks' creation.

* FridgeBrilliance: The Daleks' CatchPhrase "Exterminate" might be a StableTimeLoop. Davros heard the Doctor use it in the past, and the Daleks got it from him, but the Doctor used it ''because'' of the Daleks.

** Related to this: why would the Daleks dismiss her claim that they would need a Time Lord/Lady to make full use of the TARDIS in their possession? Well, remember the Genesis Ark back in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]]--a piece of Gallifreyan technology which they used to release the Daleks trapped in the Time War? It wasn't activated by the Doctor, but by Mickey, a ''human time-traveller''--because technology like these don't really discriminate. The Daleks are pretty much well-versed with Time Lord technology than we normally give them credit for, and so having a loose-cannon Time Lord like Missy as TheQuisling is not a GenreSavvy thing to do for them.

*** Or she was lying about only one of the refrences being a lie.

* On a positive note, if anything was going to get Missy on the Doctor's side ''for real'' in the current conflict, Davros may just have accomplished it without actually planning to. To get killed by Daleks isn't anything unusual for a Time Lady, considering how many of them died that way in the war -- and Misst has been exterminated by them before, when the Doctor was in his eighth incarnation -- but to get killed by Daleks as ''collateral damage'' in a plot by a rival Doctor-Archenemy has got to be pretty darned embarrassing for the self-proclaimed Queen of Evil. So if Missy comes back in "The Witch's Familiar", and remembers what happened to her, she's going to be royally pissed at the shriveled-up little troll: destroying her civilization is one thing, but ''discarding'' her as irrelevant is another.

** It may actually not; if Missy is using "girl" as an insult -- girl is a ''human'' term, after all, and she and the Doctor are above that; they can be anything at any point if they so choose! -- to say that the doctor's sad crying was him being "girly" then she's correct. The Doctor later reveals that he ''lost'' the moon and didn't steal it, backing up the idea.

* On a positive note, if anything was going to get Missy on the Doctor's side ''for real'' in the current conflict, Davros may just have accomplished it without actually planning to. To get killed by Daleks isn't anything unusual for a Time Lady, considering how many of them died that way in the war, but to get killed by Daleks as ''collateral damage'' in a plot by a rival Doctor-Archenemy has got to be pretty darned embarrassing for the self-proclaimed Queen of Evil. So if Missy comes back in "The Witch's Familiar", and remembers what happened to her, she's going to be royally pissed at the shriveled-up little troll: destroying her civilization is one thing, but ''discarding'' her as irrelevant is another.

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* Clara says of the Doctor, "He'll go all Scottish!" In the very next big scene, when Missy's declaring angrily "Noo, Ah've noht tourned [i]goot[/i]!" her own Scottish accent becomes quite prominent. The Doctor regenerated into a Scot, and Missy followed his lead. It helps show how determined she is to bridge the gulf between them.

* Clara says of the Doctor, "He'll go all Scottish!" In the very next big scene, when Missy's declaring angrily "Noo, Ah've noht tourned [i]goot[/i]!" her own Scottish accent becomes quite prominent. The Doctor regenerated into a Scot, and Missy followed his lead. It helps show how determined she is to bridge the gulf between them.