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* DamselInDistress: Poor Charley is already sick and tired of embodying this trope.
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-->'''Charley''': Can't a person walk down the street without being kidnapped these days?!
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* DistressedDamsel: Poor Charley is already sick and tired of embodying this trope.
-->'''Charley''': Can't a person walk down the street without being kidnapped these days?!
-->'''Charley''': Can't a person walk down the street without being kidnapped these days?!
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* AlternateHistory: It's very subtle, but the story is full of historical inaccuracies: the number of U.S. states, the year the C.I.A. was founded, and Welles not recognising Shakespeare's work when the Doctor quotes from Theatre/{{Hamlet}}. This is all ForeShadowing for later episodes.
* AncestralWeapon
* AuctionOfEvil
* AncestralWeapon
* AuctionOfEvil
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* AlternateHistory: It's very subtle, but the story is full of historical inaccuracies: the number of U.S. states, the year the C.I.A. was founded, and Welles not recognising Shakespeare's work when the Doctor quotes from Theatre/{{Hamlet}}. This is all ForeShadowing {{Foreshadowing}} for later episodes.
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* BigDamnFireExit
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: HIT HIM WITH THE CHAIR
* ChandlerAmericanTime
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: HIT HIM WITH THE CHAIR
* ChandlerAmericanTime
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* DitzyGenius: Oh, ''Eight''...
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* DramaticGunCock: Used too many times to count.
* EatenAlive
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* FedToTheBeast: Mr. Mouse
* FlyingSaucer
* ForScience: The Professor Yurish' reason for working on the alien tech.
* FourLinesAllWaiting
* FlyingSaucer
* ForScience: The Professor Yurish' reason for working on the alien tech.
* FourLinesAllWaiting
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* HardboiledDetective: The Doctor plays one for a bit.
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* HumansAreUgly
* IsThisThingStillOn: Trips up the heroes near the end of the story.
* {{Joisey}}
* LadyDrunk: Carla suggests she's this.
* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: The Brooklyn Bridge.
* IsThisThingStillOn: Trips up the heroes near the end of the story.
* {{Joisey}}
* LadyDrunk: Carla suggests she's this.
* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: The Brooklyn Bridge.
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* TheMafia
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Oh ''Eight''.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Oh ''Eight''.
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* SharkPool
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Mr. Mouse.
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%% AlienSpaceBats is an alternate history trope. As the narrative purpose of the aliens in this episode is not to cause an alternate history, the trope does not apply.
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* DistressedDamsel: Poor Charley is already sick and tired of embodying this trope.
-->'''Charley''': Can't a person walk down the street without being kidnapped these days?!
-->'''Charley''': Can't a person walk down the street without being kidnapped these days?!
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adding example + spelling edit
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Miss. Bee
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Miss. Bee[[spoiler:Miss Bee.]]
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** Glory Bee is one in-universe.
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** Glory [[spoiler:Glory Bee is one in-universe.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: Professor Yurish gets eaten by the fledgeling bats. He lives, and finishes the world's ''first'' atomic bomb
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* HeroicSacrifice: Professor Yurish gets eaten by the fledgeling fledgling bats. He lives, and finishes the world's ''first'' atomic bomb
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* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: The Brooklyn Bridge DUN. DA DA DA DUNNNN.
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* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: The Brooklyn Bridge DUN. DA DA DA DUNNNN.Bridge.
* ShoutOut: The aliens unwittingly quote Lorenz Hart.
--> We'll take Manhattan, and Staten Island too! Ha ha!
--> We'll take Manhattan, and Staten Island too! Ha ha!
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Mr. Mouse
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Mr. MouseMouse.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Miss. Bee]]
* DitzyGenius: Oh, ''Eight''...
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Miss. Bee]]
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* DitzyGenius: Oh, ''Eight''...
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** [[spoiler:Glory Bee]] is one in-universe.
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** [[spoiler:Glory Bee]] Glory Bee is one in-universe.
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* GloriousMotherRussia: [[spoiler:Glory Bee reveals herself to be a spy]] at the end of the second part.
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* GloriousMotherRussia: [[spoiler:Glory Glory Bee reveals herself to be a spy]] spy at the end of the second part.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Professor Yurish gets eaten by the fledgeling bats. [[spoiler: He lives, and finishes the world's ''first'' atomic bomb]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: Professor Yurish gets eaten by the fledgeling bats. [[spoiler: He lives, and finishes the world's ''first'' atomic bomb]]bomb
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* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: [[spoiler: The Brooklyn Bridge]] DUN. DA DA DA DUNNNN.
* LargeHam: The Doctor, pretending to be a Martian invader fleet.
* LargeHam: The Doctor, pretending to be a Martian invader fleet.
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* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: [[spoiler: The Brooklyn Bridge]] Bridge DUN. DA DA DA DUNNNN.
* LargeHam: The Doctor, pretending to be a Martian invader fleet.
* LargeHam: The Doctor, pretending to be a Martian invader fleet.
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* StuffBlowingUp: The climax involves [[spoiler:the alien ship being blown up by an atomic bomb]].
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* StuffBlowingUp: The climax involves [[spoiler:the the alien ship being blown up by an atomic bomb]].bomb.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/JessicaStevenson (at the time, only known for Series/{{Spaced}}, which Gatiss had appeared in) play Don Chaney and Glory Bee.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/SimonPegg and JessicaStevenson (at the time, only known for Series/{{Spaced}}, which Gatiss had appeared in) play Don Chaney and Glory Bee.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/SimonPegg and JessicaStevenson Creator/JessicaStevenson (at the time, only known for Series/{{Spaced}}, which Gatiss had appeared in) play Don Chaney and Glory Bee.
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[[caption-width-right:350:A tale [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen of mice and men]], with emphasis on the mice. More specifically, they're mice from Mars. (But not [[WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars biker mice from Mars.]])]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A tale [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen of mice and men]], with emphasis on the mice. More specifically, they're mice from Mars. (But not [[WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars biker mice from Mars.]])]]
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* AlternateHistory: It's very subtle, but the story is full of historical inaccuracies: the number of U.S. states, the year the C.I.A. was founded, and Welles not recognising Shakespeare's work when the Doctor quotes from {{Hamlet}}. This is all ForeShadowing for later episodes.
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* AlternateHistory: It's very subtle, but the story is full of historical inaccuracies: the number of U.S. states, the year the C.I.A. was founded, and Welles not recognising Shakespeare's work when the Doctor quotes from {{Hamlet}}.Theatre/{{Hamlet}}. This is all ForeShadowing for later episodes.
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* AlienSpaceBats: Literal ones!
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* BackupBluff: '''Sort''' of. The Doctor and Orson re-reenact the War of the Worlds except with an [[EvilIsHammy hammy overlord]] in order to h
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* BackupBluff: '''Sort''' of. The Doctor and Orson re-reenact the War of the Worlds except with an [[EvilIsHammy hammy overlord]] in order to htrick the invaders into thinking Martians [[note]]implied to be the Ice Warriors[[/note]] were actually invading.
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: The Doctor, briefly.Doctor impersonates Halliday for the first half of the story.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Maffia is happy with selling alien tech, but not the fact communists are trying to steal it.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Maffia Mafia is happy with selling alien tech, but not the fact communists are trying to steal it.
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* GloriousMotherRussiaGloriousMotherRussia: [[spoiler:Glory Bee reveals herself to be a spy]] at the end of the second part.
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* HardboiledDetective: The Doctor plays one for a bit.
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* HardboiledDetective: The Doctor plays one for a bit.
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* [[spoiler: StuffBlowingUp]]: Saves the day.
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* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Of the aliens that land, Streeth wants [[AxCrazy to burn, destroy and kill]] everything. His collegue at least has some sense in her head.
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* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Of the aliens that land, Streeth wants [[AxCrazy to burn, destroy and kill]] everything. His collegue colleague at least has some sense in her head.
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The Eighth Doctor and Charley pop up on October 30, 1938, just in time for OrsonWelles' legendary [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds radio adaptation]] of HGWells' ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. Orson himself isn't particularly excited about doing the show, but he does his job and hopes for the best.
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The Eighth Doctor and Charley pop up on October 30, 1938, just in time for OrsonWelles' Creator/OrsonWelles' legendary [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds radio adaptation]] of HGWells' Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. Orson himself isn't particularly excited about doing the show, but he does his job and hopes for the best.
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* DirtyCoward: Deveen starts working out for the Nazis, but drops his connections and offers the aliens a deal as soon as he realizes they could potentially become more powerful.
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* LikeAWeasel: Deveen starts working out for the Nazis, but drops his connections and offers the aliens a deal as soon as he realizes they could potentially become more powerful.
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* LikeAWeasel: Deveen starts working out for the Nazis, but drops his connections and offers the aliens a deal as soon as he realizes they could potentially become more powerful.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Deveen offers this to the aliens.
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* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Of the aliens that land, Streeth wants [[AxCrazy to burn, destroy and kill]] everything. His collegue at least has some sense in her head.
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: The Doctor, briefly
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: The Doctor, brieflybriefly.
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* HumansAreUgly
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Actual aliens arrive during the mass panic that breaks out due to Orson's reading of The War of the Worlds.
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* GloriousMotherRussia
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: HIT HIM WITH THE CHAIR
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Maffia is happy with selling alien tech, but not the fact communists are trying to steal it.
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* ForScience: The Professor's reason for working on the alien tech.
* FourLinesAllWaiting
* FourLinesAllWaiting
* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: [[spoiler: The Brooklyn Bridge]] DUN. DA DA DA DUNNNN.
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