History Recap / DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius

* RefusalOfTheCall: When the Doctor first lands, he is [[{{Understatement}} not pleased]] by the fact that the Time Lords have dragged him into a situation they won't deal with themselves. Sarah guilts him out of this by marvelling at her surroundings and [[ObfuscatingStupidity going off on her own anyway.]]

* GuileHero: Sarah Jane spends most of the early part of the serial skulking around after Condo and Solon trying to find the Doctor and gathering information before eventually rescuing him for the second time in two serials.

* BigDamnVillains: ''Solon'' saves the Doctor from the Sisterhood's sacrificial ritual.

* GuileHero: Sarah Jane spends most of the early part of the serial skulking around after Condo and Solon trying to find the Doctor and gathering information.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens The Sisterhood]] practice PsychicPowers, but refuse to believe that there's a way to bring back a deceased Time Lord.

* DistressedDude: Once again, the Doctor gets kidnapped.

* RefusalOfTheCall: When the Doctor first lands, he is [[{{Understatement}} not pleased]] by the fact that the Time Lords have dragged him into a situation they won't deal with themselves. Sarah guilts him out of this by marvelling at her surroundings and putting herself in unbelievable danger.

* RefusalOfTheCall: When the Doctor first lands, he is [[{{Understatement}} not pleased]] by the fact that the Time Lords have dragged him into a situation they refuse to touch themselves.

* {{Squib}}: Contains pretty much the only use of this in ''DoctorWho''. The general level of violence in the story contributed to the end of Hinchliffe's tenure when the MoralGuardians got involved.

Solon convinces the Doctor that Sarah's condition is permanent, and he goes to the Sisterhood for help - convincing them of his good offices by using a firework to clear a blocked chimney and restore the flame. Returning to Solon, the Doctor and Sarah are trapped in the cellar. The Doctor releases cyanide gas and kills Solon, but Morbius' new body is working, with a plastic bowl as a temporary head! Morbius accepts the Doctor's challenge of a battle of minds, and both are severely weakened by the ordeal. The sisterhood push the disoriented Morbius over a cliff and heal the Doctor with the Elixir.

* [=~You're Insane~=]: as Mehendri Solon is about to begin his gruesome experiment:

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-->-- '''Morbius''' goes emo

* EpilepticTrees: There's been much FanWank over the years about some of the faces that appear when Morbius is supposedly viewing the Doctor's incarnations (actually members of the production team) - are they future Doctors? Was the 'First' Doctor really not the first and these are predecessors? Are they Morbius' incarnations?
* FrankensteinsMonster: this episode is an obvious homage

* Main/JamesBondage: Once again, the Doctor gets kidnapped. Is he trying to take the Bondage King crown away from the Third Doctor?

* YoureInsane: as Mehendri Solon is about to begin his gruesome experiment:

-->'''Morbius''' goes emo

!Tropes

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-->Sarah Jane: "You're Insane, Solon, you're mad!"

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Calling Morbias "Chop suey, the Galactic Emperor". He is not pleased.
*BodyHorror
*BrainInAJar
*EpilepticTrees: There's been much FanWank over the years about some of the faces that appear when Morbius is supposedly viewing the Doctor's incarnations (actually members of the production team) - are they future Doctors? Was the 'First' Doctor really not the first and these are predecessors? Are they Morbius' incarnations?

*SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: The Sisterhood of Karn.
*TemporaryBlindness
*TheXOfY