Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* CallBack: Leela recalls how her father sacrificed himself to save her life, and the Doctor remembers his own previous visit to the Land.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Laura had a difficult relationship with her father, and [[spoiler:Eddie’s real father left as soon as she told him she was pregnant]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Simon stays in the Land of Fiction to protect his son]].
* KillerOutfit: Nearly applies to the Doctor when he trips over his scarf while being chased.
* NoSell: Leela causes no damage when she tries to attack the Crooked Man physically.
* OffWithHisHead: At one point Simon tears the head of a fictional alien that is just made of paper-mache.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Simon stays in the Land of Fiction to protect his son]].
* KillerOutfit: Nearly applies to the Doctor when he trips over his scarf while being chased.
* NoSell: Leela causes no damage when she tries to attack the Crooked Man physically.
* OffWithHisHead: At one point Simon tears the head of a fictional alien that is just made of paper-mache.
Changed line(s) 14 (click to see context) from:
* SpottingTheThread: One of the reasons the Doctor realises the truth of the situation, [[spoiler:as Simon Corbett has taken his ''wife's'' name rather than the usual tradition]].
to:
* SpottingTheThread: Reality Ensues: In the end, [[spoiler:Laura Corbett accepts a real relationship with a flawed, genuine human being after Simon sacrifices himself]].
* ShoutOut:
** One of the books Laura sold is ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}''
** The books stuffed down the bookseller’s throat include pages from ''Literature/GreatExpectations'' and ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby''.
* SpottingTheThread:
** The Doctor and Leela both note that the cabinets in the bookshop and the bookshop door itself were both broken from the inside, suggesting something breaking out rather than breaking in.
** One of the reasons the Doctor realises the truth of the situation, [[spoiler:as Simon Corbett has taken his ''wife's'' name rather than the usual tradition]].
* ShoutOut:
** One of the books Laura sold is ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}''
** The books stuffed down the bookseller’s throat include pages from ''Literature/GreatExpectations'' and ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby''.
* SpottingTheThread:
** The Doctor and Leela both note that the cabinets in the bookshop and the bookshop door itself were both broken from the inside, suggesting something breaking out rather than breaking in.
** One of the reasons the Doctor realises the truth of the situation, [[spoiler:as Simon Corbett has taken his ''wife's'' name rather than the usual tradition]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 12 (click to see context) from:
* PapaWolf: Simon Corbett is shown as this, kicking down doors to try and protect his son.
to:
* OverpopulationCrisis: The Land of Fiction is basically suffering from this, as the abundance of fictional mediums in existence in the present has resulted in the Land becoming too full, causing some of the lesser fictional characters to be 'forced out', such as a tabloid caricature of a famous actress or a murderer from a spin-off novelisation of a soap opera.
* PapaWolf: Simon Corbett is shown as this, kicking down doors [[spoiler:and even through dimensions]] to try and protect his son.
* PapaWolf: Simon Corbett is shown as this, kicking down doors [[spoiler:and even through dimensions]] to try and protect his son.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 11 (click to see context) from:
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The unnamed book shop owner was killed by The Crooked Man by stuffing him full of book pages.
to:
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The unnamed book shop owner was killed by The Crooked Man by stuffing him full of book pages.pages, and later the Crooked Man destroys other fictional characters by destroying their original stories.
* PapaWolf: Simon Corbett is shown as this, kicking down doors to try and protect his son.
* SpottingTheThread: One of the reasons the Doctor realises the truth of the situation, [[spoiler:as Simon Corbett has taken his ''wife's'' name rather than the usual tradition]].
* PapaWolf: Simon Corbett is shown as this, kicking down doors to try and protect his son.
* SpottingTheThread: One of the reasons the Doctor realises the truth of the situation, [[spoiler:as Simon Corbett has taken his ''wife's'' name rather than the usual tradition]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 9,11 (click to see context) from:
* BavarianFireDrill: The Doctor barges in to a crime scene and start investigating, to the chagrin of PC Andrews.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When The Doctor and Leela wanders into Leslie King's house, she assumes they are fans who want her autograph. The Doctor being the {{cloudcuckoolander}} that he is, assuming she's asking for HIS autograph.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The unnamed book shop owner was killed by The Crooked Man by stuffing him full of book pages.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When The Doctor and Leela wanders into Leslie King's house, she assumes they are fans who want her autograph. The Doctor being the {{cloudcuckoolander}} that he is, assuming she's asking for HIS autograph.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The unnamed book shop owner was killed by The Crooked Man by stuffing him full of book pages.
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 9,10 (click to see context) from:
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When The Doctor and Leelawanders into Leslie King's house, she assumes they are fans who want her autograph. The Doctor being the {{cloudcuckoolander}} that he is, assuming she's asking for HIS autograph.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The unnamed book shop owner was killed by The Crooked Man by stuffing him full of book pages.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The unnamed book shop owner was killed by The Crooked Man by stuffing him full of book pages.
to:
*ComicallyMissingThePoint: When The Doctor and
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When The Doctor and Leelawanders into Leslie King's house, she assumes they are fans who want her autograph. The Doctor being the {{cloudcuckoolander}} that he is, assuming she's asking for HIS autograph.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8 (click to see context) from:
!!''The Crooked Man'' contains examples of:
to:
!!''The Crooked Man'' contains examples of:of:
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The unnamed book shop owner was killed by The Crooked Man by stuffing him full of book pages.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The unnamed book shop owner was killed by The Crooked Man by stuffing him full of book pages.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_crooked_man_cover.jpg]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 7 (click to see context) from:
!!'The Crooked Man' contains examples of:
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
Winter at the seaside. The wind blows. The waves crash. People are dying and a strange spindly figure stalks the cold, deserted streets. A typical holiday for the Doctor and Leela in other words.
When they stumble across a grotesque series of murders at the coast, the TARDIS travellers realise the local constabulary is out of its depth. Something supernatural has come to town, something evil. And it all seems to be tied in to a particular young family.
Monsters lurk behind strange doors. Tragic secrets wait to be uncovered. And somewhere, deep within, the Crooked Man sits. He is waiting for you.
!!'The Crooked Man' contains examples of:
When they stumble across a grotesque series of murders at the coast, the TARDIS travellers realise the local constabulary is out of its depth. Something supernatural has come to town, something evil. And it all seems to be tied in to a particular young family.
Monsters lurk behind strange doors. Tragic secrets wait to be uncovered. And somewhere, deep within, the Crooked Man sits. He is waiting for you.
!!'The Crooked Man' contains examples of:
