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* TitledAfterTheSong: ''Spiral Scratch'' is named after the song and EP by Music/TheBuzzcocks.
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** ''Spiral Scratch'' is named after the song and EP byMusic/TheBuzzcocks.Music/TheBuzzcocks.
** ''Loving the Alien'' was named after the Music/DavidBowie song.
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** ''Loving the Alien'' was named after the Music/DavidBowie song.
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* AMFMCharacterization: ''Business Unusual'' reveals that Mel was a fan of Music/{{ABBA}} and Music/TheBeeGees in her childhood.
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* AMFMCharacterization: ''Business Unusual'' reveals that the Sixth Doctor likes Music/PinkFloyd (especially ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn''), while Mel was a fan of Music/{{ABBA}} and Music/TheBeeGees in her childhood.
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* AMFMCharacterization: ''Business Unusual'' reveals that Mel was a fan of Music/{{ABBA}} and Music/TheBeeGees in her childhood.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: The Master tells the Brigadier such in ''The Face of the Enemy'':
-->Ask yourself, have I ever denied anything I've done? Have I ever lied about anything? No. I'm proud of my so-called crimes, Brigadier. I think you'll find that in many ways I am the most honest man you've ever met.
-->Ask yourself, have I ever denied anything I've done? Have I ever lied about anything? No. I'm proud of my so-called crimes, Brigadier. I think you'll find that in many ways I am the most honest man you've ever met.
* BigEater: In ''Synthespians (TM)'', the Sixth Doctor visits a cinema and orders popcorn, chocolates, a hot dog, nachos and dips, and a super-size fizzy drink.
* ItsCuban: The original Master smokes Cuban cigars.
* TakingTheBullet: In ''Mission: Impractical'', Dibber is killed by a blaster bolt, apparently whilst pushing Glitz out of the line of fire.
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* TropeCodifier: ''Festival Of Death'' codified the timey-wimey TemporalParadox plot style that would later become commonplace in the TV series (The Doctor arrives on a space station, learns he's going to die saving it from destruction, goes back in time by a day to find out what he did, has to go back ''again'' to do everything for the first time while avoiding the second version...).
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* TitledAfterTheSong: ''Spiral Scratch'' is named after the song and EP by Music/TheBuzzcocks.
* TropeCodifier: ''Festival Of Death'' codified the timey-wimey TemporalParadox plot style that would later become commonplace in the TV series(The (the Doctor arrives on a space station, learns he's going to die saving it from destruction, goes back in time by a day to find out what he did, has to go back ''again'' to do everything for the first time while avoiding the second version...).
* TropeCodifier: ''Festival Of Death'' codified the timey-wimey TemporalParadox plot style that would later become commonplace in the TV series
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* WorthyOpponent: In ''The Face of the Enemy'', the Master considers the Brigadier to be a worthy and honourable adversary despite his inferiority.
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** ''Festival of Death'' opens with the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9 arriving on the G-Lock space station to learn that they've already saved it from "certain unimaginable destruction", resulting in them having to go back to the day before to save the station and meet everyone they just met for the first time. By the time the novel concludes, the TARDIS crew have not only experienced the same day twice, but had to go back in time almost two centuries to meet the ship's computer for the first time just to ensure all the loose ends are tied up (the Doctor expresses private relief when the computer doesn't recognise him as that means he doesn't have to go back ''again'').
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* StrangledByTheRedString: Tegan falls for PC Andy Weathers incredibly quickly, even daydreaming about spending her life with him after only a day. Played with, however, in that her fantasies home in less on their being a couple and more about Andy being a potential way back into a normal life for Tegan; the novel is set during her final season on TV, and she is clearly starting to tire of all the death and danger that comes with her TARDIS travels, foreshadowing her eventual departure in ''Resurrection of the Daleks''.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: Tegan falls for PC Andy Weathers in ''Deep Blue'' incredibly quickly, even daydreaming about spending her life with him after only a day. Played with, however, in that her fantasies home in focus less on their being a couple and more about Andy being a potential way back into a normal life for Tegan; the novel is set during her final season on TV, and she is clearly starting to tire of all the death and danger that comes with her TARDIS travels, foreshadowing her eventual departure in ''Resurrection of the Daleks''.
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* BusmansHoliday: The Doctor brings his companions to a pleasure beach in the 1970s in ''Deep Blue'' to give them a well-deserved holiday to recover from the horrific events at [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E1WarriorsOfTheDeep Sea Base Four]]. What follows makes that story seem light and fluffy in comparison.
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* FromBadToWorse: ''Deep Blue'' comes right off the back of ''Warriors of the Deep'', notoriously one of the classic series' most violent and depressing stories, and the Doctor brings Tegan and Turlough to the seaside for some rest and relaxation. Naturally, they are caught up in an alien invasion plot that utilizes an incredibly gory ViralTransformation and MoreThanMindControl that traumatises all three of the TARDIS crew even worse than the previous adventure.
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* HaveWeMetYet: In ''Deep Blue'', Tegan and Turlough meet the Brigadier in the 1970s, nearly a decade before their first meeting in ''Mawdryn Undead''. Thanks to some convenient EasyAmnesia at the end, this isn't as much of a threat to the timelines as it could have been.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: Tegan falls for PC Andy Weathers incredibly quickly, even daydreaming about spending her life with him after only a day. Played with, however, in that her fantasies home in less on their being a couple and more about Andy being a potential way back into a normal life for Tegan; the novel is set during her final season on TV, and she is clearly starting to tire of all the death and danger that comes with her TARDIS travels, foreshadowing her eventual departure in ''Resurrection of the Daleks''.
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* WaterSourceTampering: ''Deep Blue'' has the latest alien threat do this to the ''ocean'', though it's only effective in close proximity to their spaceship; anyone who eats fish caught locally or even walks in the shallows at the beach gets infected with a truly nasty ViralTransformation.
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* SpottingTheThread: The Fifth Doctor displays this particularly keenly in ''Imperial Moon'', although he has to be left in a coma to give his subconscious a chance to put the pieces together; [[spoiler:based on how their current apparent allies claimed to have gained their knowledge of English from Turlough but were using terms better suited to an educated Victorian man, the Doctor realised that he was actually dealing with a group of ruthless monsters as opposed to simple refugees]].
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* SpottingTheThread: The Fifth Doctor displays this particularly keenly in ''Imperial Moon'', although he has to be left in enter a healing coma to give his subconscious a chance to put the pieces together; [[spoiler:based on how their current apparent allies claimed to have gained their knowledge of English from Turlough but were using terms better suited to an educated Victorian man, the Doctor realised that he was actually dealing with a group of ruthless monsters as opposed to simple refugees]].
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* UnreliableNarrator: ''Blue Box'' is an InUniverse book by IntrepidReporter Chick Peters. While some of what he says about events he wasn't present for is speculative, none of it seems to be exactly inaccurate ... except that most of the alien stuff is being kept from him and he refuses to accept the little he's told. So for example, he thinks of the Doctor as an English hippie who has some kind of boat.
* UnskilledButStrong: ''Instruments of Darkness'' mentions that the Sixth Doctor has some telepathic potential, but he doesn’t use it very often due to his lack of training, with another telepath musing that it’s a shame he hasn’t explored this trait.
* UnskilledButStrong: ''Instruments of Darkness'' mentions that the Sixth Doctor has some telepathic potential, but he doesn’t use it very often due to his lack of training, with another telepath musing that it’s a shame he hasn’t explored this trait.
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* UnknownRival: In ''Palace of the Red Sun'', Protector Glavis Judd never even learns that the Doctor exists, but the Doctor vows to end Judd's Protectorate after reading the files about him in the Esselven computers.
* UnreliableNarrator: ''Blue Box'' is an InUniverse book by IntrepidReporter Chick Peters. While some of what he says about events he wasn't present for is speculative, none of it seems to be exactlyinaccurate ...inaccurate... except that most of the alien stuff is being kept from him and he refuses to accept the little he's told. So for example, he thinks of the Doctor as an English hippie who has some kind of boat.
* UnskilledButStrong: ''Instruments of Darkness'' mentions that the Sixth Doctor has some telepathic potential, but he doesn’t use it very often due to his lack of training, with another telepath musing that it’s a shame he hasn’t explored thistrait.trait as he has definite potential.
* UnreliableNarrator: ''Blue Box'' is an InUniverse book by IntrepidReporter Chick Peters. While some of what he says about events he wasn't present for is speculative, none of it seems to be exactly
* UnskilledButStrong: ''Instruments of Darkness'' mentions that the Sixth Doctor has some telepathic potential, but he doesn’t use it very often due to his lack of training, with another telepath musing that it’s a shame he hasn’t explored this
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* {{Gaslighting}}: ''Palace of the Red Sun'' [[spoiler:essentially ends with Glavis Judd experiencing this fate; having been sent five hundred years into his own future, he's dismissed as a lunatic who just ''thinks'' he's Glavis Judd and is sent to an asylum with others who share that delusion, last shown no longer sure of his own identity]].
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* HeistEpisode: ''Mission: Impractical'' sees the Sixth Doctor take part in a heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch along with Frobisher, Glitz and Dibber.
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* OfficialCouple: Ian and Barbara in... pretty much every novel featuring them. ''Byzantium!'' establishes that they married sometime after returning to 1966.
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* OldMaster: Particularly invoked in ''The Eleventh Tiger'', when the First Doctor is played in charge of a Chinese school in 1865 and proves himself in combat against another former student.
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* OldMaster: Particularly invoked in ''The Eleventh Tiger'', when the First Doctor is played in charge of a Chinese school in 1865 and proves himself in combat against another former student.student of the school.
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* PresentTenseNarrative: ''Tomb of Valdemar''.
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* RasputinianDeath: The original, in ''Wages of Sin'', which turns out [[spoiler:to have been partly down to a time-traveller trying to keep Rasputin alive by, for instance, surreptitiously disposing of the poison before Rasputin consumed it]].
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* RasputinianDeath: The original, in ''Wages of Sin'', which turns out [[spoiler:to have been partly down to a time-traveller trying to keep Rasputin alive by, for instance, surreptitiously disposing of the poison poisoned cakes before Rasputin consumed it]].
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* SpottingTheThread: The Fifth Doctor displays this particularly keenly in ''Imperial Moon'', [[spoiler:although it takes him nearly falling into a coma from oxygen starvation to put the pieces together and realise the full extent of what he’s up against]].
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* SpottingTheThread: The Fifth Doctor displays this particularly keenly in ''Imperial Moon'', [[spoiler:although it takes him nearly falling into although he has to be left in a coma from oxygen starvation to give his subconscious a chance to put the pieces together and realise together; [[spoiler:based on how their current apparent allies claimed to have gained their knowledge of English from Turlough but were using terms better suited to an educated Victorian man, the full extent Doctor realised that he was actually dealing with a group of what he’s up against]].ruthless monsters as opposed to simple refugees]].
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* SteamPunk: Suggested in ''Imperial Moon''; [[spoiler:while the propulsion system for the spaceships created for the British Imperial Spacefleet are indirectly inspired by alien influence]], the Doctor notes that Victorian Britain could have built a structurally sound spaceship on their own, but would have had no way to get that ship into the air.
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* SteamPunk: Suggested in ''Imperial Moon''; [[spoiler:while the propulsion system for the spaceships created for the British Imperial Spacefleet are indirectly inspired by alien influence]], the Doctor notes that Victorian Britain in 1878 could have built a structurally sound spaceship on their own, but would have had no way to get that ship into the air.
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** ''The King of Terror'' has a character from Southern California mention Dingoes Ate my Baby, Oz's band in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', as one of his favorite bands.
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** ''The King of Terror'' has a character from Southern California mention Dingoes Ate my My Baby, Oz's band in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', as one of his favorite bands.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: ''The Wages of Sin'' sees Liz return and meet Jo. The two don't get on - Liz finding her replacement innadequate and immature, while Jo finding her predecessor patronizing and cold. They get better over the course of the story.
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** The novel ''Asylum'' sees the Fourth Doctor- estimated to be from a point between “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]” and “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]”- meeting Nyssa long after she parted company with the Fifth Doctor (“[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]”), the novel concluding with both aware that the Doctor will now have to be sure of the younger Nyssa’s safety when she becomes his companion in his future.
** ''Warmonger'' forces the Fifth Doctor to spend a year leading a military campaign against Morbius to set up the events that will lead to Morbius being defeated and his brain extracted so that it can be destroyed by the Fourth Doctor (“[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]”).
** ''Warmonger'' forces the Fifth Doctor to spend a year leading a military campaign against Morbius to set up the events that will lead to Morbius being defeated and his brain extracted so that it can be destroyed by the Fourth Doctor (“[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]”).
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** The novel ''Asylum'' sees the Fourth Doctor- estimated to be from a point between “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]” Assassin]]" and “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]”- Evil]]"- meeting Nyssa long after she parted company with the Fifth Doctor (“[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]”), ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]"), the novel concluding with both aware that the Doctor will now have to be sure of the younger Nyssa’s safety when she becomes his companion in his future.
** ''Warmonger'' forces the Fifth Doctor to spend a year leading a military campaign against Morbius to set up the events that will lead to Morbius being defeated and his brain extracted so that it can be destroyed by the Fourth Doctor(“[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]”).Morbius]]").
** ''Warmonger'' forces the Fifth Doctor to spend a year leading a military campaign against Morbius to set up the events that will lead to Morbius being defeated and his brain extracted so that it can be destroyed by the Fourth Doctor
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* AGodAmI: Defied; ''The Quantum Archangel'' [[spoiler:sees the Sixth Doctor temporarily ascend to a god-like state using the last dregs of a source of cosmic energy, but he rejects the idea that he is worthy of this power and only uses it long enough to convince the titular Quantum Archangel to abandon her own power]].
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* AGodAmI: Defied; AGodIAmNot: ''The Quantum Archangel'' [[spoiler:sees the Sixth Doctor temporarily ascend to a god-like state using the last dregs of a source of cosmic energy, but he rejects the idea that he is worthy of this power and only uses it long enough to convince the titular Quantum Archangel to abandon her own power]].
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* RoguesGallery: Jennifer Richards, Josh Randall, Koel Paddox, Lady Hakai, Living Ice, the Repulsion, Sandminer robots, SASV 1, & Voracians.
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* ''[[Literature/DoctorWhoMeetsScratchman Scratchman]]'' (January 2019) by Tom Baker and James Goss. Features the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan.
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* ''[[Literature/DoctorWhoMeetsScratchman Scratchman]]'' (January 2019) by Tom Baker and James Goss. Features the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan.[[note]]A novel based on Tom Baker's and Ian Marter's unproduced 1970s ''Doctor Who'' film script ''Doctor Who Meets Scratchman''[[/note]]
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* ''Scratchman'' (January 2019) by Tom Baker and James Goss. Features the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan.
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* ''Scratchman'' ''[[Literature/DoctorWhoMeetsScratchman Scratchman]]'' (January 2019) by Tom Baker and James Goss. Features the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan.
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* ''Fear Itself'' (September, 2005) by Nick Wallace. Features the Eighth Doctor, Fitzgerald "Fitz" Kreiner, and Anji Kapoor.[[note]]Published as a Past Doctor Adventure rather than an Eighth Doctor Adventure as the book had been delayed and was published after the "official" last Eight Doctor Adventure and the TV debut of the Ninth.[[/note]]
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* ''Fear Itself'' (September, 2005) by Nick Wallace. Features the Eighth Doctor, Fitzgerald "Fitz" Kreiner, and Anji Kapoor.[[note]]Published as a Past Doctor Adventure rather than an Eighth Doctor Adventure as the book had been delayed and was published after the "official" last Eight Eighth Doctor Adventure and the TV debut of the Ninth.[[/note]]
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* OverlyLongName: Lady Serenadellatrovella in ''World Game''.
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** Lady Serenadellatrovella in ''WorldGame''.Game''.
** Inverted in ''Heart of TARDIS'', where there's a Time Lord with the overly short name of Wblk.
** Lady Serenadellatrovella in ''World
** Inverted in ''Heart of TARDIS'', where there's a Time Lord with the overly short name of Wblk.
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* ContinuitySnarl: ''The Infinity Doctors'' is a [[TropesAreNotBad deliberate]] use of this trope. WordOfGod says it's situated somewhere in ''Doctor Who'' continuity... the trouble is, it doesn't seem to fit anywhere, because there's always one piece of continuity that seems to contradict a specific placing. Even [[TheNthDoctor the incarnation of the Doctor]] it features is left unspecified. All of which is [[RiddleForTheAges entirely intentional]].
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* ContinuitySnarl: ''The Infinity Doctors'' is a [[TropesAreNotBad [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools deliberate]] use of this trope. WordOfGod says it's situated somewhere in ''Doctor Who'' continuity... the trouble is, it doesn't seem to fit anywhere, because there's always one piece of continuity that seems to contradict a specific placing. Even [[TheNthDoctor the incarnation of the Doctor]] it features is left unspecified. All of which is [[RiddleForTheAges entirely intentional]].
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* TimeyWimeyBall:
** The novel ''Asylum'' sees the Fourth Doctor- estimated to be from a point between “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]” and “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]”- meeting Nyssa long after she parted company with the Fifth Doctor (“[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]”), the novel concluding with both aware that the Doctor will now have to be sure of the younger Nyssa’s safety when she becomes his companion in his future.
** ''Warmonger'' forces the Fifth Doctor to spend a year leading a military campaign against Morbius to set up the events that will lead to Morbius being defeated and his brain extracted so that it can be destroyed by the Fourth Doctor (“[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]”).
** The novel ''Asylum'' sees the Fourth Doctor- estimated to be from a point between “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]” and “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]”- meeting Nyssa long after she parted company with the Fifth Doctor (“[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]”), the novel concluding with both aware that the Doctor will now have to be sure of the younger Nyssa’s safety when she becomes his companion in his future.
** ''Warmonger'' forces the Fifth Doctor to spend a year leading a military campaign against Morbius to set up the events that will lead to Morbius being defeated and his brain extracted so that it can be destroyed by the Fourth Doctor (“[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]”).
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* SplatterHorror: ''Rags'', in which a demonically-possessed undead punk rock group spread a HatePlague wherever they play, with gruesome results. One of the darkest works ever to be produced under the ''Who'' banner in any medium.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: In ''The Ultimate Treasure'', the Fifth Doctor is forced to join one of a group of expeditions competing against each other for a mythical treasure; many of the traps encountered in this case are justified as part of a series of tests left by the treasure’s original owner and maintained by its current guardians as part of their research into the human condition.
* BeenThereShapedHistory:
** In ''Byzantium!'', the First Doctor assists in the original translation of the Book of Mark, and in The Witch Hunters, his presence unwittingly helps instigate the Salem Witch Trials.
** In ''The Wages of Sin'', the Doctor, Jo and Liz accidentally travel to Russia in 1916 and witness the events leading up to Rasputin’s death; the novel even concludes with [[spoiler:the Doctor watching Rasputin drown, even though he has learned that Rasputin isn’t the monster he’s portrayed as by history, because he has to preserve the timeline]].
** ''Players'' in particular sees the Sixth Doctor assist in Winston Churchill’s escape from a Boer prison in 1899 and then work with Churchill in thwarting a complex Nazi conspiracy that would have seen Edward VIII dismiss the government and officially ally with Hitler in 1936; ''The Shadow in the Glass'' also sees the Doctor present in the Berlin bunker on the date of Hitler’s suicide.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: While normally a pacifist, the events of ''Warmonger'' force the Fifth Doctor to become a military leader of a vast alliance that includes some of his more regular enemies- the Sontarans, the Ice Warriors and the Cybermen in particular- against an army led by the renegade Time Lord Morbius, mounting a successful year-long campaign that earns him the respect of all of his normal foes (and he does this while using an alias so that he doesn’t have his usual reputation as the Doctor as ‘evidence’ that he knows what he’s doing).
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Not full-on brainwashed, but while in VictorianLondon in ''Matrix'', the Seventh Doctor almost succumbs to the influence of a dark force that drives him to try and kill Ace.
** In ''Byzantium!'', the First Doctor assists in the original translation of the Book of Mark, and in The Witch Hunters, his presence unwittingly helps instigate the Salem Witch Trials.
** In ''The Wages of Sin'', the Doctor, Jo and Liz accidentally travel to Russia in 1916 and witness the events leading up to Rasputin’s death; the novel even concludes with [[spoiler:the Doctor watching Rasputin drown, even though he has learned that Rasputin isn’t the monster he’s portrayed as by history, because he has to preserve the timeline]].
** ''Players'' in particular sees the Sixth Doctor assist in Winston Churchill’s escape from a Boer prison in 1899 and then work with Churchill in thwarting a complex Nazi conspiracy that would have seen Edward VIII dismiss the government and officially ally with Hitler in 1936; ''The Shadow in the Glass'' also sees the Doctor present in the Berlin bunker on the date of Hitler’s suicide.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: While normally a pacifist, the events of ''Warmonger'' force the Fifth Doctor to become a military leader of a vast alliance that includes some of his more regular enemies- the Sontarans, the Ice Warriors and the Cybermen in particular- against an army led by the renegade Time Lord Morbius, mounting a successful year-long campaign that earns him the respect of all of his normal foes (and he does this while using an alias so that he doesn’t have his usual reputation as the Doctor as ‘evidence’ that he knows what he’s doing).
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Not full-on brainwashed, but while in VictorianLondon in ''Matrix'', the Seventh Doctor almost succumbs to the influence of a dark force that drives him to try and kill Ace.
* ChangedMyJumper: Averted in ''Players'', ''The Shadow in the Glass'' and ''Blue Box'', when the Sixth Doctor changes into more conventional attire as part of a long-term investigation into current events (although in ''Blue Box'' he returns to his regular attire as soon as the situation escalates).
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Flashbacks in ''Divided Loyalties'' reveals that the Doctor’s first trip off Gallifrey saw one of his oldest friends being possessed by an ancient entity and another was kept as a permanent prisoner by that same entity despite the Doctor’s efforts to save them.
* {{Foil}}: ''The Suns of Caresh'' features the Third Doctor confronting the Time Lord Roche, who also has an interest in interfering with other planets to save them from imminent threats, but decides to prioritise saving certain lives or civilisations at the cost of endangering other, ‘lesser’ lives where the Doctor would always try to save everyone.
* AGodAmI: Defied; ''The Quantum Archangel'' [[spoiler:sees the Sixth Doctor temporarily ascend to a god-like state using the last dregs of a source of cosmic energy, but he rejects the idea that he is worthy of this power and only uses it long enough to convince the titular Quantum Archangel to abandon her own power]].
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* NeverMyFault: In ''Festival of Death'', Rochfort, captain of the ''Cerberus'', takes this to a particularly twisted extent; when the ''Cerberus'' is caught in a closing hyperspace tunnel, ship's computer ERIC told Rochfort to let him stop the ship, but Rochfort kept insisting that they could make it up until the moment they crashed into the now-sealed tunnel exit, and subsequently tells ERIC that he ''should'' have overridden Rochfort's orders even though ERIC's programming specifically forbids him from doing such a thing. The resulting conflict between what ERIC is being told he should have done and what he was actually capable of doing drives him into a suicidal depression that lasts for almost two centuries, while Rochfort's attempt to escape responsibility [[spoiler:sees him possessed and essentially killed by an other-dimensional entity of pure death]].
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* NeverMyFault: MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Sixth Doctor almost has a breakdown in ''The Quantum Archangel'' when his interference accidentally escalates a minor conflict he was trying to prevent into a global nuclear holocaust, with the failure being so great that Mel nearly decides to leave him; [[spoiler:the entire conflict is erased at the conclusion of the novel as a few higher-dimensional beings decided that they owe the Doctor a favour, but he has to acknowledge that it still happened even if it didn’t any more]].
* NeverMyFault:
** An interesting example of this, as ''Heart of TARDIS'' sees the Second Doctor claim that his difficulties in piloting the TARDIS are actually the result of security protocols that inhibit a thief’s ability to control a stolen TARDIS rather than just that he doesn’t know what he’s doing (although the evidence suggests that he was at least exaggerating the impact these protocols have on his ability to control the ship).
** In ''Festival of Death'', Rochfort, captain of the ''Cerberus'', takes this to a particularly twisted extent; when the ''Cerberus'' is caught in a closing hyperspace tunnel, ship's computer ERIC told Rochfort to let him stop the ship, but Rochfort kept insisting that they could make it up until the moment they crashed into the now-sealed tunnel exit, and subsequently tells ERIC that he ''should'' have overridden Rochfort's orders even though ERIC's programming specifically forbids him from doing such a thing. The resulting conflict between what ERIC is being told he should have done and what he was actually capable of doing drives him into a suicidal depression that lasts for almost two centuries, while Rochfort's attempt to escape responsibility [[spoiler:sees him possessed and essentially killed by an other-dimensional entity of puredeath]].death]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** ''The Final Sanction'' sees the Second Doctor almost alter history so that the planet Ockara and the ruthless Selachian natives aren’t destroyed in 2204, to the point that [[spoiler:a group of surviving Selachians nearly destroy Earth in retaliation]].
** In ''Tomb of Valdemar'', the Fourth Doctor makes the situation worse when he helps Magus Paul Neville ‘wake up’ an ancient palace because he assumed Neville had no way to control its more dangerous resources.
** In ''Loving the Alien'', after receiving a ‘warning’ of the future in the form of discovering the corpse of Ace from a point in her not-too-distant future, the Seventh Doctor attempts to [[spoiler:prevent Ace’s death by going to the time and place where her dead body will be discovered, and then leaves her alone without warning her about what he’s trying to accomplish; leads into a HeroicBSOD when her body is discovered later]].
* RoguesGallery: Jennifer Richards, Josh Randall, Koel Paddox, Lady Hakai, Living Ice, the Repulsion, Sandminer robots, SASV 1, & Voracians.
* NeverMyFault:
** An interesting example of this, as ''Heart of TARDIS'' sees the Second Doctor claim that his difficulties in piloting the TARDIS are actually the result of security protocols that inhibit a thief’s ability to control a stolen TARDIS rather than just that he doesn’t know what he’s doing (although the evidence suggests that he was at least exaggerating the impact these protocols have on his ability to control the ship).
** In ''Festival of Death'', Rochfort, captain of the ''Cerberus'', takes this to a particularly twisted extent; when the ''Cerberus'' is caught in a closing hyperspace tunnel, ship's computer ERIC told Rochfort to let him stop the ship, but Rochfort kept insisting that they could make it up until the moment they crashed into the now-sealed tunnel exit, and subsequently tells ERIC that he ''should'' have overridden Rochfort's orders even though ERIC's programming specifically forbids him from doing such a thing. The resulting conflict between what ERIC is being told he should have done and what he was actually capable of doing drives him into a suicidal depression that lasts for almost two centuries, while Rochfort's attempt to escape responsibility [[spoiler:sees him possessed and essentially killed by an other-dimensional entity of pure
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** ''The Final Sanction'' sees the Second Doctor almost alter history so that the planet Ockara and the ruthless Selachian natives aren’t destroyed in 2204, to the point that [[spoiler:a group of surviving Selachians nearly destroy Earth in retaliation]].
** In ''Tomb of Valdemar'', the Fourth Doctor makes the situation worse when he helps Magus Paul Neville ‘wake up’ an ancient palace because he assumed Neville had no way to control its more dangerous resources.
** In ''Loving the Alien'', after receiving a ‘warning’ of the future in the form of discovering the corpse of Ace from a point in her not-too-distant future, the Seventh Doctor attempts to [[spoiler:prevent Ace’s death by going to the time and place where her dead body will be discovered, and then leaves her alone without warning her about what he’s trying to accomplish; leads into a HeroicBSOD when her body is discovered later]].
* RoguesGallery: Jennifer Richards, Josh Randall, Koel Paddox, Lady Hakai, Living Ice, the Repulsion, Sandminer robots, SASV 1, & Voracians.
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* OldMaster: Particularly invoked in ''The Eleventh Tiger'', when the First Doctor is played in charge of a Chinese school in 1865 and proves himself in combat against another former student.
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* SpottingTheThread: The Fifth Doctor displays this particularly keenly in ''Imperial Moon'', [[spoiler:although it takes him nearly falling into a coma from oxygen starvation to put the pieces together and realise the full extent of what he’s up against]].
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* StrongerThanTheyLook: In ''Ten Little Aliens'', the First Doctor is able to [[spoiler:telepathically hold back a neural pulse capable of immobilising himself and seven other people with only the power of his mind, despite the fact that he is drawing ever closer to the moment when he will regenerate for the first time]].
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* UnskilledButStrong: ''Instruments of Darkness'' mentions that the Sixth Doctor has some telepathic potential, but he doesn’t use it very often due to his lack of training, with another telepath musing that it’s a shame he hasn’t explored this trait.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Sixth Doctor accepts his fate in ''Spiral Scratch'':
-->Don't cry, Mel. It was my time. Well, maybe not, but it was my time to give. To donate. I've had a good innings you know, seen and done a lot. Can't complain this time. Don't feel cheated.
* FamousLastWords: ''Spiral Scratch'' gives the Sixth Doctor's last words as "Local...tractor beam". Still more dignified than "Carrot juice?"
-->Don't cry, Mel. It was my time. Well, maybe not, but it was my time to give. To donate. I've had a good innings you know, seen and done a lot. Can't complain this time. Don't feel cheated.
* FamousLastWords: ''Spiral Scratch'' gives the Sixth Doctor's last words as "Local...tractor beam". Still more dignified than "Carrot juice?"
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* IntercontinuityCrossover: One of the characters in ''Corpse Marker'', by Creator/ChrisBoucher, previously appeared in one of Boucher's episodes of ''Series/BlakesSeven ''.
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* IntercontinuityCrossover: One of the characters in ''Corpse Marker'', by Creator/ChrisBoucher, previously appeared in one of Boucher's episodes of ''Series/BlakesSeven ''.his ''Series/BlakesSeven'' episode "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E3Weapon Weapon]]".
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* FriendToAllChildren: Par for the course with the Doctor. ''Grave Matter'' has a scene where the Sixth Doctor entertains some local schoolchildren with card tricks.
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*ForTheEvulz: Obviously comes up for a few of the Doctor’s villains, but a particular example occurs in the Doctor’s encounters with the Players, with the Second and Sixth Doctors each denouncing the Players’ claims to be ‘masters of Time’ by calling them spoiled children who manipulate history for nothing more than their own amusement, while the Players see nothing wrong with turning all of Earth into their own personal battlefield to liven up their dull immortality.
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* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: In ''Salvation'', faced with beings who gain power based on the belief others have in them, the First Doctor not only [[spoiler:survives being hit by a fireball in front of a crowd of believers because his belief that he can’t be hurt outweighs the crowd’s belief in his attacker, but later drives these beings away by dropping a dud bomb on the park and making everyone present think it can hurt their ‘gods’]].
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* PaperThinDisguise: In ''World Game'', the Second Doctor disguises himself as Napoleon to take important messages through enemy lines on behalf of the Duke of Wellington to avert the interference of the time-manipulating Players. While the Duke and his immediate allies acknowledge that the Doctor only bears a slight resemblance to Napoleon, with the right clothes the Doctor makes a convincing enough Napoleon to the average Frenchman who would never come that close to his Emperor but only see him at a distance.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: When the TARDIS arrives on Sarath in ''City at World's End'', he soon establishes that he has just over a month to replace the TARDIS key and help the natives get their ship in working order before the decaying moon crashes into Sarath; [[spoiler:the situation escalates when the moon fractures in advance of the predicted schedule, leaving them with eight hours to get everything together and off the planet]].
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: When the TARDIS arrives on Sarath in ''City at World's End'', he the Doctor soon establishes that he has just over a month to replace the TARDIS key and help the natives get their ship in working order before the decaying moon crashes into Sarath; [[spoiler:the situation escalates when the moon fractures in advance of the predicted schedule, leaving them with eight hours to get everything together and off the planet]].
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* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: "Inspector [=LeMaitre=]" in ''Last of the Gaderene'' and "Gospodar" in ''The Quantum Archangel''; the Doctor explicitly wonders in ''Archangel'' if the Master's running out of languages.
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* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: "Inspector [=LeMaitre=]" in ''Last of the Gaderene'' and "Gospodar" in ''The Quantum Archangel''; Archangel'' as aliases adopted by the Master; the Doctor explicitly wonders in ''Archangel'' if the Master's running out of languages.
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* ApoclaypseHitler: In ''The Shadow in the Glass'', [[spoiler:the Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier discover a Fourth Reich led by Hitler's son using alien technology (albeit alien technology that the Nazis have mistaken for a supernatural artefact), but this trope is defied as the Doctor proclaims that even Hitler Junior knows that there is no place in the modern world for his father's philosophy, justifying why he continues to hide away rather than mount his new campaign even though he is now the same age as his father was when Hitler committed suicide]].
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* ApoclaypseHitler: ApocalypseHitler: In ''The Shadow in the Glass'', [[spoiler:the Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier discover a Fourth Reich led by Hitler's son using alien technology (albeit alien technology that the Nazis have mistaken for a supernatural artefact), but this trope is defied as the Doctor proclaims that even Hitler Junior knows that there is no place in the modern world for his father's philosophy, justifying why he continues to hide away rather than mount his new campaign even though he is now the same age as his father was when Hitler committed suicide]].
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* ApoclaypseHitler: In ''The Shadow in the Glass'', [[spoiler:the Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier discover a Fourth Reich led by Hitler's son using alien technology (albeit alien technology that the Nazis have mistaken for a supernatural artefact), but this trope is defied as the Doctor proclaims that even Hitler Junior knows that there is no place in the modern world for his father's philosophy, justifying why he continues to hide away rather than mount his new campaign even though he is now the same age as his father was when Hitler committed suicide]].
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* NoahsStoryArc: ''City at World's End'' looks at the last surviving city of the planet Sarath as it attempts to construct a vast spaceship to take its population to the neighbouring planet Mirath before Sarath's moon crashes into the planet and destroys it. [[spoiler:In the end, construction issues and internal conflicts mean that only just over a thousand survivors can make it to Mirath out of a population of over eighty thousand]].
