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* SmokeOut
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* AlasPoorYorick


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* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: A crystal and a skull exist "partially" out of the time continuum.
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* AlmostDeadGuy
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** And this little gem:
--> '''Bernice''': "When I say run, run."
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* PuppeteerParasite
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* BackFromTheDead: The cult of the Dark Flame is dedicated to bring their master back to life.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Bernice, oh so much.
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* CompellingVoice: The Doctor uses his to force Ace to sleep.
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* CaptainErsatz: Joseph seems to have the mannerisms of C3PO.



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* TeleportersAndTransportersTeleportersAndTransporters: The Transmat system comes back, as a garbage disposal into the planet's surface.

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* SingleBiomePlanet: Of Volcanos.

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* SingleBiomePlanet: Of Volcanos. volcanic activity with acid storms. [[SarcasmMode I heard it's lovely in the summer]].
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* CallBack: Black Light first made a TV appearance in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E1TheMysteriousPlanet The Mysterious Planet]].
* ContinuityNod: Ogrons are namedropped.
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* SingleBiomePlanet: Of Volcanos.
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* ShoutOut: A [[StarWars Darth Vader]] quote.
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The Doctor catches up with an old friend named Remnex, who immediately proceeds to get brutally murdered, and [[StableTimeLoop sends a distress signal back in time to the Doctor on his way there]]. Bernice, meanwhile, gets thrown down the garbage chute and ends up on the hellish planet below, where her lost friend (who was kidnapped and forced to do some emergency archaeology) ''also'' gets brutally murdered. His robot buddy Joseph, though, survives -- albeit with a bit of HeroicBDOS at losing the man who programmed him.

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The Doctor catches up with an old friend named Remnex, who immediately proceeds to get brutally murdered, and [[StableTimeLoop sends a distress signal back in time to the Doctor on his way there]]. Bernice, meanwhile, gets thrown down the garbage chute and ends up on the hellish planet below, where her lost friend (who was kidnapped and forced to do some emergency archaeology) ''also'' gets brutally murdered. His robot buddy Joseph, though, survives -- albeit with a bit of HeroicBDOS HeroicBSOD at losing the man who programmed him.
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* BadAss: '''Ace''':

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* BadAss: '''Ace''': '''Ace'''.
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The whole thing turns out to have been engineered by an EldritchAbonimation intent on destroying the known universe with the lab's physics experiments. He's spent quite a number of centuries surviving by means of BodySurf (and with the help of a nice big interstellar {{Cult}}). He effortlessly takes over Remnex' body and starts hypnotising people left and right, including Benny. With his original skull now having been excavated, he's about to use the Dark Flame to subdue all life and become a God-King. He also plans to [[{{Squick}} use Benny's body as his next]].

While Ace threatens to go suicide bombing, tries to snap Benny out of hypnotism and fights off animated skeletons with the Doctor's umbrella, the Doctor fuses Joseph's circuits to the MacGuffin (with Joseph making a HeroicSacrifice in the process). When the EldritchAbonimation decides to engage in the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind with the Doctor, his MindRape fails rather spectacularly, and the Doctor -- granted momentary RealityWarper powers -- manages to fashion the whole thing into a rather more positive CloseEnoughTimeline.

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The whole thing turns out to have been engineered by an EldritchAbonimation EldritchAbomination intent on destroying the known universe with the lab's physics experiments. He's spent quite a number of centuries surviving by means of BodySurf (and with the help of a nice big interstellar {{Cult}}). He effortlessly takes over Remnex' body and starts hypnotising people left and right, including Benny. With his original skull now having been excavated, he's about to use the Dark Flame to subdue all life and become a God-King. He also plans to [[{{Squick}} use Benny's body as his next]].

While Ace threatens to go suicide bombing, tries to snap Benny out of hypnotism and fights off animated skeletons with the Doctor's umbrella, the Doctor fuses Joseph's circuits to the MacGuffin (with Joseph making a HeroicSacrifice in the process). When the EldritchAbonimation EldritchAbomination decides to engage in the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind with the Doctor, his MindRape fails rather spectacularly, and the Doctor -- granted momentary RealityWarper powers -- manages to fashion the whole thing into a rather more positive CloseEnoughTimeline.



* {{Squick}}: The EldritchAbonimation wants Benny's body... in more ways than one.

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* {{Squick}}: The EldritchAbonimation EldritchAbomination wants Benny's body... in more ways than one.



* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman

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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
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This episode, written by Creator/PaulCornell, takes place in the ''VirginNewAdventures'' canon rather than the BigFinish timeline.

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The Seventh Doctor and Ace visit BerniceSummerfield at a physics lab, where she was dropped off to meet an old friend. Since the guy never showed up, Bernice has mostly spent her time at the lab being bored and helping out with garbage disposal.

The Doctor catches up with an old friend named Remnex, who immediately proceeds to get brutally murdered, and [[StableTimeLoop sends a distress signal back in time to the Doctor on his way there]]. Bernice, meanwhile, gets thrown down the garbage chute and ends up on the hellish planet below, where her lost friend (who was kidnapped and forced to do some emergency archaeology) ''also'' gets brutally murdered. His robot buddy Joseph, though, survives -- albeit with a bit of HeroicBDOS at losing the man who programmed him.

The whole thing turns out to have been engineered by an EldritchAbonimation intent on destroying the known universe with the lab's physics experiments. He's spent quite a number of centuries surviving by means of BodySurf (and with the help of a nice big interstellar {{Cult}}). He effortlessly takes over Remnex' body and starts hypnotising people left and right, including Benny. With his original skull now having been excavated, he's about to use the Dark Flame to subdue all life and become a God-King. He also plans to [[{{Squick}} use Benny's body as his next]].

While Ace threatens to go suicide bombing, tries to snap Benny out of hypnotism and fights off animated skeletons with the Doctor's umbrella, the Doctor fuses Joseph's circuits to the MacGuffin (with Joseph making a HeroicSacrifice in the process). When the EldritchAbonimation decides to engage in the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind with the Doctor, his MindRape fails rather spectacularly, and the Doctor -- granted momentary RealityWarper powers -- manages to fashion the whole thing into a rather more positive CloseEnoughTimeline.

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* BadAss: '''Ace''':
* HeroicSacrifice: Joseph makes one (though the Doctor promises he'll try to fix him up). Ace also wouldn't mind making one.
* {{Squick}}: The EldritchAbonimation wants Benny's body... in more ways than one.
* TookALevelInBadass: Ace spent some time with the military before this story. This makes her ''even more badass''.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman

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