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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When aliens and unicorns are wandering around San Francisco and mugging citizens for chocolate barsm no one even notices.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When aliens and unicorns are wandering around San Francisco and mugging citizens for chocolate barsm bars no one even notices.
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* CurseCutShort: A Faction Paradox member taunts the Doctor with a parody of a Gallifreyan rhyme:

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* CurseCutShort: A Faction Paradox member taunts the Doctor with a [[IronicNurseryTune parody of a Gallifreyan rhyme:rhyme]]:

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* CityOfWeirdos: San Francisco is portrayed like this even before the rift opens up. It's a testament to the city that aliens and unicorns are wandering around mugging citizens for chocolate bars and no one even notices.



* TemporalParadox: The entire plot, and in fact Sam's entire presence in the series, hinges on one.

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* TemporalParadox: The entire plot, and in fact Sam's entire presence in the series, hinges on one.one.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When aliens and unicorns are wandering around San Francisco and mugging citizens for chocolate barsm no one even notices.
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* BoringInsult: The Doctor give one to the young Faction agent after he offers to avert the current crisis in exchange for Sam; the boy has been trying to present himself as a threat, but the Doctor effortlessly guesses the general details of his backstory and dismisses him as nothing more than another monster broken by life who just wants to smash everything, no more special than any of the other monsters out there, and affirms that his companions are more than that.
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* StealingFromTheHotel: Something blonde Sam wouldn't do, but brunette Sam unashamedly does.
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* GladToBeAliveSex: [[spoiler:Fitz and Sam]], after witnessing a particularly gruesome murder.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Dark Sam throws herself into the space-time scar to bring back blonde Sam, the only one who can save the Doctor; by doing so, she comes into contact with the Doctor's biodata and her own is transformed, creating blonde Sam for the first time.]] As the Faction would say, a neat little paradox.

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* GladToBeAliveSex: [[spoiler:Fitz Fitz and Sam]], Sam, after witnessing a particularly gruesome murder.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Dark Dark Sam throws herself into the space-time scar to bring back blonde Sam, the only one who can save the Doctor; by doing so, she comes into contact with the Doctor's biodata and her own is transformed, creating blonde Sam for the first time.]] time. As the Faction would say, a neat little paradox.

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* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: Dark Sam throws herself into the space-time scar to bring back blonde Sam, the only one who can save the Doctor; by doing so, she comes into contact with the Doctor's biodata and her own is transformed, creating blonde Sam for the first time.]] As the Faction would say, a neat little paradox.

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* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: Dark HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Dark Sam throws herself into the space-time scar to bring back blonde Sam, the only one who can save the Doctor; by doing so, she comes into contact with the Doctor's biodata and her own is transformed, creating blonde Sam for the first time.]] As the Faction would say, a neat little paradox.



* InternalHomage: [[spoiler:''[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor}} The Name of the Doctor]]'' was this]].

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* CurseCutShort: A Faction Paradox member taunts the Doctor with a parody of a Gallifreyan rhyme:
-->"Sing the past to me, 'cause I'm the one who wrote the song\\
I made it up next week so all the words will come out wrong\\
The past won't keep you warm tonight, the future's blown to bits,\\
And everything that you believe is really full of --"\\
The door slammed behind him.



* GladToBeAliveSex: [[spoiler:Fitz and Sam]], after witnessing a particularly gruesome murder.



* TemporalParadox: The entire plot, and in fact Sam's entire presence in the series, hinges on one.

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* NewspaperThinDisguise: Played with twice. In the first instance, Fitz doesn't seem to be attempting to hide, but came across as shady nonetheless. The second time he does it, this time actually trying to camouflage himself, he realizes that the newspaper is in Chinese, and, unluckily for him, while he does speak Chinese, he can't read it.
* TemporalParadox: The entire plot, and in fact Sam's entire presence in the series, hinges on one.
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* InSpiteOfANail: The Wild Hunt changes the little details of Sam's life, but she's still Samantha Jones...until a real, significant change occurs that leaves her a wasted addict suffering from withdrawal and absolutely wretched.

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* InSpiteOfANail: The Wild Hunt changes the little details of Sam's life, but she's still Samantha Jones... until a real, significant change occurs that leaves her a wasted addict suffering from withdrawal and absolutely wretched.
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* ItsBeenDone: [[Series/{{Torchwood}} A rift in space-time opens in a major city, inciting a ton of general oddities into that city?]] The [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures EDAs]] did it first.
** Oh, and [[spoiler:[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor}}the nature of the Doctor's timeline causing a massive scar in the fabric of space and time, into which his companion throws herself to create an alternate version of herself to save the Doctor]]]]? Also the [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures EDAs]].
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* DoingInTheWizard: Griffin's MO is an in-universe form of this. He can't abide "impossible" creatures, so he breaks them down enough so they can be properly cataloged.
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* AllTheMyriadWays: Played with in regards to Sam and the Wild Hunt. Initially the changes seem like gaping discrepancies in Sam's life, but the Doctor points out that Sam doesn't need to remember exactly what she wore last Tuesday or who she invited to her fifth birthday to still be Sam.
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Samantha Jones has been having a really weird day. A man shows up at her door, calling himself the Doctor and claiming they've met. He insists that she's traveled with him in his space-time ship and seen the universe. He also insists that she's supposed to blonde.

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Samantha Jones has been having a really weird day. A man shows up at her door, calling himself the Doctor and claiming they've met. He insists that she's traveled with him in his space-time ship and seen the universe. He also insists that she's supposed to be blonde.

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This is the Sam that should have been. It turns out the paradoxical dark-haired girl from blonde Sam's dreams has finally caught up to her, as has reality. Dark Sam is the real one. The only Sam Jones there is. The Doctor tires to talk to her, but sensing that something isn't right, she ignores him. After Sam leaves this nutter behind, she's ambushed by young kid with a knife and no shadow. The Doctor saves her but is injured himself, and entreats Sam to trust him, which she reluctantly does. They meet Fitz in San Francisco, 2002, to examine a temporal rift that's causing the city all manner of trouble.

They are [[AlienAbduction abducted]] and tagged with tracking devices designed to tap into the Doctor's biodata, which for some reason is spread out and tangled up all across the city. The man who is watching them is an [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast unnaturalist]], or hunter of exotic (read: alien) flora and fauna. The unnaturalist is interested in a kraken that has emerged from a higher dimension, attracted to the rift as a source of food. The thing has been sleeping in the San Francisco Bay for a few days and its immense size poses threat to the entire city. Fitz meets with a hippie woman who helps him investigate ley lines running through the city, converging on the places where the Doctor's biodata is the most tangled. They discover that the rift is a actually a scar in space-time caused by the opening of the Eye of Harmony in San Fran when the Doctor regenerated, and that the only thing stopping the kraken from rolling right over the city and crushing it to swallow the scar is the TARDIS, who threw herself into the dimensional anomaly to act like an impromptu sealant, containing enough dimensions of her own temporarily mask the rift's existence. Problem is, the TARDIS is in agony, being pulled apart by the forces of the rift, and the only way to permanently seal the rift would be to allow her collapse into it completely, an act which would destroy her. With San Francisco behaving even more oddly than usual, the Doctor and Fitz must convince this alternate Sam to help them close the scar before the city is obliterated.

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This is the Sam that should have been. It turns out the paradoxical dark-haired girl from blonde Sam's dreams has finally caught up to her, as has reality. Dark Sam is the real one. The only Sam Jones there is. The Doctor tires tries to talk to her, but sensing that something isn't right, she ignores him. After Sam leaves this nutter behind, she's ambushed by young kid with a knife and no shadow. The Doctor saves her but is injured himself, and entreats Sam to trust him, which she reluctantly does. They meet Fitz in San Francisco, 2002, to examine a temporal rift that's causing the city all manner of trouble.

They are [[AlienAbduction abducted]] and tagged with tracking devices designed to tap into the Doctor's biodata, which for some reason is spread out and tangled up all across the city. The man who is watching them is an [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast unnaturalist]], or hunter of exotic (read: alien) flora and fauna. The unnaturalist is interested in a kraken that has emerged from a higher dimension, attracted to the rift as a source of food. The thing has been sleeping in the San Francisco Bay for a few days and its immense size poses threat to the entire city. Fitz meets with a hippie woman who helps him investigate ley lines running through the city, converging on the places where the Doctor's biodata is the most tangled. They discover that the rift is a actually a scar in space-time caused by the opening of the Eye of Harmony in San Fran when the Doctor regenerated, and that the only thing stopping the kraken from rolling right over the city and crushing it to swallow the scar is the TARDIS, who threw herself into the dimensional anomaly to act like an impromptu sealant, containing enough dimensions of her own to temporarily mask the rift's existence. Problem is, the TARDIS is in agony, being pulled apart by the forces of the rift, and the only way to permanently seal the rift would be to allow her collapse into it completely, an act which would destroy her. With San Francisco behaving even more oddly than usual, the Doctor and Fitz must convince this alternate Sam to help them close the scar before the city is obliterated.


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* InternalHomage: [[spoiler:''[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor}} The Name of the Doctor]]'' was this]].


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**Oh, and [[spoiler:[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor}}the nature of the Doctor's timeline causing a massive scar in the fabric of space and time, into which his companion throws herself to create an alternate version of herself to save the Doctor]]]]? Also the [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures EDAs]].

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Samantha Jones has been having a really weird day. A man shows up at her door, calling himself the Doctor and claiming they've met. He insists that she's traveled with him in his spacee-time ship and seen the universe. He also insists that she's supposed to blonde.

This is the Sam that should have been. It turns out the paradoxical dark-haired girl from blonde Sam's dreams has finally caught up to her, as has reality. Dark Sam is the real one. The only Sam Jones there is. The Doctor tires to talk to her, but sensing that something isn't right, she ignores him. After Sam leaves this nutter behind, she's ambushed by young kid with a knife and no shadow. The Doctor saves her but is injured himself, and entreats Sam to trust him, which she reluctantly does. They meet Fitz in San Fransisco, 2002, to examine a temporal rift that's causing the city all manner of trouble.

With San Fransisco behaving even more oddly than usual, the Doctor and Fitz must convince this alternate Sam to help them close the scar before the city is obliterated.

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Samantha Jones has been having a really weird day. A man shows up at her door, calling himself the Doctor and claiming they've met. He insists that she's traveled with him in his spacee-time space-time ship and seen the universe. He also insists that she's supposed to blonde.

This is the Sam that should have been. It turns out the paradoxical dark-haired girl from blonde Sam's dreams has finally caught up to her, as has reality. Dark Sam is the real one. The only Sam Jones there is. The Doctor tires to talk to her, but sensing that something isn't right, she ignores him. After Sam leaves this nutter behind, she's ambushed by young kid with a knife and no shadow. The Doctor saves her but is injured himself, and entreats Sam to trust him, which she reluctantly does. They meet Fitz in San Fransisco, Francisco, 2002, to examine a temporal rift that's causing the city all manner of trouble.

They are [[AlienAbduction abducted]] and tagged with tracking devices designed to tap into the Doctor's biodata, which for some reason is spread out and tangled up all across the city. The man who is watching them is an [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast unnaturalist]], or hunter of exotic (read: alien) flora and fauna. The unnaturalist is interested in a kraken that has emerged from a higher dimension, attracted to the rift as a source of food. The thing has been sleeping in the San Francisco Bay for a few days and its immense size poses threat to the entire city. Fitz meets with a hippie woman who helps him investigate ley lines running through the city, converging on the places where the Doctor's biodata is the most tangled. They discover that the rift is a actually a scar in space-time caused by the opening of the Eye of Harmony in San Fran when the Doctor regenerated, and that the only thing stopping the kraken from rolling right over the city and crushing it to swallow the scar is the TARDIS, who threw herself into the dimensional anomaly to act like an impromptu sealant, containing enough dimensions of her own temporarily mask the rift's existence. Problem is, the TARDIS is in agony, being pulled apart by the forces of the rift, and the only way to permanently seal the rift would be to allow her collapse into it completely, an act which would destroy her. With San Fransisco Francisco behaving even more oddly than usual, the Doctor and Fitz must convince this alternate Sam to help them close the scar before the city is obliterated.

!!''Unnatural !!Tropes present in ''Unnatural History'' provides examples of:include:



* CityOfWeirdos: San Fransisco is portrayed like this even before the rift opens up. It's a testament to the city that aliens and unicorns are wandering around mugging citizens for chocolate bars and no one even notices.
* EldritchAbomination: The kraken is described this way. It's an extra-dimensional leviathan attracted to Earth by the rift, so impossibly huge that its sheer presence in San Fransisco Bay poses a threat to the city.

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* BigDamnKiss: Between Sam and the Doctor and Sam and Fitz.
* CityOfWeirdos: San Fransisco Francisco is portrayed like this even before the rift opens up. It's a testament to the city that aliens and unicorns are wandering around mugging citizens for chocolate bars and no one even notices.
* EldritchAbomination: The kraken is described this way. It's an extra-dimensional leviathan attracted to Earth by the rift, so impossibly huge that its sheer presence in San Fransisco Francisco Bay poses a threat to the city.




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Samantha Jones has been having a really weird day. A man shows up at her door, calling himself the Doctor and claiming they've met. He insists that she's traveled with him in his spacee-time ship and seen the universe. He also insists that she's supposed to blonde.

This is the Sam that should have been. It turns out the paradoxical dark-haired girl from blonde Sam's dreams has finally caught up to her, as has reality. Dark Sam is the real one. The only Sam Jones there is. The Doctor tires to talk to her, but sensing that something isn't right, she ignores him. After Sam leaves this nutter behind, she's ambushed by young kid with a knife and no shadow. The Doctor saves her but is injured himself, and entreats Sam to trust him, which she reluctantly does. They meet Fitz in San Fransisco, 2002, to examine a temporal rift that's causing the city all manner of trouble.



!! Tropes:
* AllTheMyriadWays: Played with in regards to Sam and the Wild Hunt. Initially the changes seem

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!!''Unnatural History'' provides examples of:
* AllTheMyriadWays: Played with in regards to Sam and the Wild Hunt. Initially the changes seem like gaping discrepancies in Sam's life, but the Doctor points out that Sam doesn't need to remember exactly what she wore last Tuesday or who she invited to her fifth birthday to still be Sam.


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* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: Dark Sam throws herself into the space-time scar to bring back blonde Sam, the only one who can save the Doctor; by doing so, she comes into contact with the Doctor's biodata and her own is transformed, creating blonde Sam for the first time.]] As the Faction would say, a neat little paradox.
* InSpiteOfANail: The Wild Hunt changes the little details of Sam's life, but she's still Samantha Jones...until a real, significant change occurs that leaves her a wasted addict suffering from withdrawal and absolutely wretched.
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* ItsBeenDone: [[Series/Torchwood A rift in space-time opens in a major city, inciting a ton of general oddities into that city?]] The [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures EDAs]] did it first.

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* ItsBeenDone: [[Series/Torchwood [[Series/{{Torchwood}} A rift in space-time opens in a major city, inciting a ton of general oddities into that city?]] The [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures EDAs]] did it first.
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With San Fransisco behaving even more oddly than usual, the Doctor and Fitz must convince this alternate Sam to help them close the scar before the city is obliterated.

!! Tropes:
*AllTheMyriadWays: Played with in regards to Sam and the Wild Hunt. Initially the changes seem
*CityOfWeirdos: San Fransisco is portrayed like this even before the rift opens up. It's a testament to the city that aliens and unicorns are wandering around mugging citizens for chocolate bars and no one even notices.
*EldritchAbomination: The kraken is described this way. It's an extra-dimensional leviathan attracted to Earth by the rift, so impossibly huge that its sheer presence in San Fransisco Bay poses a threat to the city.
*ItsBeenDone: [[Series/Torchwood A rift in space-time opens in a major city, inciting a ton of general oddities into that city?]] The [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures EDAs]] did it first.
*TemporalParadox: The entire plot, and in fact Sam's entire presence in the series, hinges on one.
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