History Recap / DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice

'''Missy:''' Anachronisms, the slightest, tiniest... ''[screaming guitar solo]'' ...anachronisms.

* ChewingTheScenery: The Doctor bursts into the story with a '''TANK'''. Jamming away on a guitar. And rocking sunglasses. ''In 1138.''

* HiddenInPlainSight: Look for something anomalous. Like an electric guitar and amps in 1138 CE.

* MoodWhiplash: Once again, Steven Moffat uses this trope like a rollercoaster. At the beginning, we see the Doctor realizing he saw Davros as a kid, in the middle, we get a huge comedic scene where the Doctor rides in on a tank while shredding a guitar and suddenly begins acting all charming and cuddly with Clara, and by the end, Missy, Clara and the TARDIS are exterminated after the Doctor has a FreakOut about saving Clara, and the Doctor apparently plans to ''kill'' the child Davros!

Written by Creator/StevenMoffat. The first episode of Series 9 (Season 35) of ''Series/DoctorWho'', and the first part of a two-parter, aired on 19 September 2015. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35ShortPrologue Prologue]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35PrequelTheDoctorsMeditation The Doctor's Meditation]]" are preludes revealing what the Doctor has been up to while the opening act of this episode unfolds.

** In a real-world scenario, a sniper would have shot Missy the moment she killed the first agent, orders or no, so even with Clara and Kate willing to be patient, Missy got off lucky. On the other hand, it can be assumed UNIT has trained their snipers extremely well, so that they wouldn't do useless things. What would a sniper shooting at her even accomplish, since she wouldn't die (all ''eight'' snipers would have to take the shot)? She would probably be angry after that and kill everyone in the area, snipers, UNIT soldiers, Clara and possible civilians included. Would you risk that from a known psychopath? Plus, the "information" about eight snipers shooting in those preise area being necessary to kill a Time Lord was provided by ''Missy herself''. How does UNIT know that she isn't lying, as the Master [[ConsummateLiar has been apt to do]] throughout their lives? Plus, Missy still had her vortex manipulator, showing that even if she was truthful about the number of snipers and where they have to shoot to kill her, she still had an easy way to extricate herself from that situation anyway.

* ChewingTheScenery: The Doctor bursts into the story with a '''TANK'''. Jamming away on a guitar. And rocking sunglasses. In 1138.

** Missy asks if it's still the same Dalek Emperor, telling the other daleks to "tell him the Bitch is back!"

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** Like [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]], the Doctor jars an audience in the past with metal guitar solos.

* CuddleBug: Much to Clara's surprise, the Doctor seems to have become this.

** In a real-world scenario, a sniper would have shot Missy the moment she killed the first agent, orders or no, so even with Clara and Kate willing to be patient, Missy got off lucky.
** On the other hand, it can be assumed UNIT has trained their snipers extremely well, so that they wouldn't do useless things. What would a sniper shooting at her even accomplish, since she wouldn't die (all ''eight'' snipers would have to take the shot)? She would probably be angry after that and kill everyone in the area, snipers, UNIT soldiers, Clara and possible civilians included. Would you risk that from a known psychopath? Plus, the "information" about eight snipers shooting in those preise area being necessary to kill a Time Lord was provided by ''Missy herself''. How does UNIT know that she isn't lying, as the Master [[ConsummateLiar has been apt to do]] throughout their lives? Plus, Missy still had her vortex manipulator, showing that even if she was truthful about the number of snipers and where they have to shoot to kill her, she still had an easy way to extricate herself from that situation anyway.

* MagnificentBastard:[[invoked]] Missy, to no-one's surprise.

-->--'''[[Creator/TomBaker The Fourth Doctor]]''', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]"

The one where the Doctor [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy became a rock god.]]

And a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Special Weapons Dalek]] [[SuddenlyVoiced that actually lights up and speaks]] [[EvilSoundsDeep with a booming voice!]]

** In the cold open, a large portion of the episode being set on Skaro is teased by the soldiers' SchizoTech including gas masks, bows and arrows, and biplanes equipped with lasers. A plot point in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" was that the Thousand Year War caused Thal and Kaled technology to regress.

** In the pre-titles sequence, Kanzo is armed with a bow and arrow. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]", Harry Sullivan suggested that this would eventually happen during the war thanks to technology regressing.
** A soldier on Skaro mentions that "Clam drones are two miles away", which is likely a reference to the much-derided giant clam from "Genesis of the Daleks".

* AnAxeToGrind: Bors, when Clara and Missy track the Doctor to a medieval village. Played for laughs when the Doctor shows up wielding an electric guitar and quipping, "You said you wanted an axe fight!"

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Clara's encounter with Creator/JaneAusten which, it is implied, had an amorous quality to it.

* UnexpectedCharacter: While Davros appearing as a child was reported by the press several months before the episode aired, there was no indication whatsoever that a present day version of the character would appear, or that Creator/JulianBleach (the current Davros) had any connection to future episodes.

** Missy references the "Cloister Wars" and a night when the Doctor stole the Moon ''and'' the President's wife, though one of those incidents (or her suggestion that the Doctor was once female) is not actually true by her admission.