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* DressingAsTheEnemy: The Doctor gains entry to Chase's mansion by stealing the hat and coat of the limo driver who tried to kill him and just driving through the front gate. Once he actually gets ''out'' of the car and the guards realize he's not the regular driver, the disguise fails. HilarityEnsues.
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* TapOnTheHead: Chase knocks Henderson out by bopping him lightly with a big wrench.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The Krynoid seems to have this as an instinct. Chase likewise feels this way when it comes to plants.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The Krynoid seems to have this as an instinct. Chase likewise feels this way when it comes to plants.
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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Keeler is only a botanist, sure, but you'd think Chase would've sent someone with a little more backbone to assist Scorby in Antarctica. He openly whines about every little thing Scorby does and can barely even hold a gun correctly.
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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Keeler is only a botanist, sure, but you'd think Chase would've sent someone with a little more backbone ruthless to assist Scorby in Antarctica. He openly whines about every little thing Keeler objects to everything Scorby does and can barely even hold initially refuses to use a gun. When he finally accepts a gun correctly.the poor guy is such a nervous wreck it's amazing he doesn't accidentally shoot himself.
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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Keeler is only a botanist, sure, but you'd think Chase would've sent someone with a little more backbone to assist Scorby in Antarctica. He openly whines about every little thing Scorby does and can barely even hold a gun correctly.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Most of Chase's guards wisely bail offscreen when things start getting rough, except for one who apparently wasn't fast enough and gets killed by some vines.
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* PutOnABus: This serial marked the last appearance of UNIT in the series for a long time. Except for a minor appearance in ''[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]'', there wouldn't be another UNIT story until ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]'' 12 years later.
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* PutOnABus: This serial marked the last appearance of UNIT in the series for a long time. Except for a minor appearance in ''[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]'', there wouldn't be another UNIT story until ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]'' 12 13 years later.
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* PutOnABus: This serial marked the last appearance of UNIT in the series for a long time. Except for a minor appearance in ''[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]'', there wouldn't be another UNIT story until ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]'' 12 years later.
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Inverted? What?
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* ImmuneToBullets: Inverted for once. Ordinary bullets don't work of course, but neither does the fancy UNIT laser, and it's the Doctor who advises firebombing the creature. What a pity TheBrigadier was in Geneva on that occasion.
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* MysteriousAntarctica
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Doctor demonstrates how to get their co-operation.
-->"If that Krynoid spawns it will mean the end of everything, even your pension!"
-->"If that Krynoid spawns it will mean the end of everything, even your pension!"
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Dunbar]].
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* RecycledScript: Noticeably recycled from a episode of ''TheAvengers'' ''Series/TheAvengers'' (not by the same writer). Also strong similarities to ''The {{Quatermass}} Experiment''.''[[{{Quatermass}} The Quatermass Experiment]]''.
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* BodyHorror: There's no other way to describe the Krynoid transformation.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: "It's more serious than death, Mr. Stevenson. He's [[BodyHorror changing form]]."
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* CompleteMonster: Harrison Chase. The guy is so obsessed with plants that he has no value for human life. He uses ''human bodies'' as a source of compost, is willing to let poor Keeler be mutated for the sake of science, and is finally fully in favour of the Krynoids [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the Earth]] and [[KillAllHumans killing all humans]].
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* FrickinLaserBeams: UNIT now has rather clunky and homemade-looking laser guns. However, they work about as well on the Krynoid as the usual FiveRoundsRapid. Well, they work ''slightly'' better It still does little more than you'd expect since the blasts do at least annoy the Krynoid rather than just giving it a vaguely ticklish sensation, but that's about it.annoy.
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* FrickinLaserBeams: UNIT now has rather clunky and homemade-looking laser guns. However, they work about as well on the Krynoid as the usual FiveRoundsRapid. Well, they work ''slightly'' better than you'd expect since the blasts do at least annoy the Krynoid rather than just giving it a vaguely ticklish sensation, but that's about it.
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* BBCQuarry: As Antarctica with a white paint job. A different part of the same quarry was then used as an actual quarry for the fight scene between the Doctor and Chase's chauffeur.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Scorby, while holding a gun on the Doctor and Sarah, decides to leave them to be killed by an explosion that would be violent enough to destroy any evidence of death by gunshot.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Scorby, while holding a gun on '''all the Doctor and Sarah, decides to leave them to be killed by an explosion that would be violent enough to destroy any evidence of death by gunshot.time'''.
* FrickinLaserBeams: UNIT now has rather clunky and homemade-looking laser guns. However, they work about as well on the Krynoid as the usual FiveRoundsRapid.
* KillUsBoth: the Doctor ends the story by calling in an air strike on a building he's trapped in. [[spoiler: He gets out in time.]]
* LittleOldLadyInvestigates: Amelia Ducat.
* LittleOldLadyInvestigates: Amelia Ducat.
* MoralGuardians: one of a number of Who stories from the era to be specifically attacked by Mary Whitehouse. In this case, she complained about "strangulation by obscene vegetable matter" and the possibility of children imitating the scene where Scorby makes a petrol bomb.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Scorby, while holding a gun on the Doctor and Sarah, decides to leave them to be killed by an explosion that would be violent enough to destroy any evidence of death by gunshot.
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* FridgeLogic: Does the Krynoid regard plants that rely on pollinators as LesCollaborateurs?
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* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath]]: [[spoiler:Chase ends KarmicDeath: Chase [[spoiler:ends up shredded in his own human compost machine, after trying to drag the Doctor in. ''While the Doctor was trying to save him''.]]
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* [[spoiler:SaveTheVillain]]: [[spoiler:The SaveTheVillain: The Doctor tries to save Chase, who [[spoiler:who responds by trying to pull him into the compost machine with him. Big mistake, as it's difficult to hold onto someone while your legs are being crushed.]]
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Two this time: Sergeant Henderson for Benton and Major Beresford for TheBrigadier.
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The Keelernoid grows bigger and bigger, eventually beginning to take over Chase's mansion, while the mad collector decides to turn the Doctor into compost to feed it - but ends up falling into the crusher himself, while the Krynoid is bombed by [[UltimateDefenseOfTheRealm [[UltimateDefenceOfTheRealm the RAF]].
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The Keelernoid grows bigger and bigger, eventually beginning to take over Chase's mansion, while the mad collector decides to turn the Doctor into compost to feed it - but ends up falling into the crusher himself, while the Krynoid is bombed by [[UltimateDefenseOfTheRealm the RAF.
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The Tardis TARDIS arrives in England as two large alien seed-pods are found in the Antarctic permafrost. Helicoptered out to the Antarctic base to see for himself, the Doctor identifies them as Krynoids - a particularly rapacious plant that will, if allowed to germinate, consume all life on Earth.
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*CompleteMonster: Chase probably qualifies. The guy is so obsessed with plants that he has no value for human life. He uses ''human bodies'' as a source of compost, is willing to let poor Keeler be mutated for the sake of science, and is finally fully in favour of the Krynoids taking over the Earth and [[KillAllHumans killing all humans]].
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*CompleteMonster: Chase probably qualifies.Harrison Chase. The guy is so obsessed with plants that he has no value for human life. He uses ''human bodies'' as a source of compost, is willing to let poor Keeler be mutated for the sake of science, and is finally fully in favour of the Krynoids [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the Earth Earth]] and [[KillAllHumans killing all humans]].
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