History Recap / NewSeriesAdventuresEnginesOfWar

** Rassilon inquires if "the Doctor" has managed to track down TheMaster. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Which he won't, until due time]].

** The Doctor recalls the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]] and says if he had been the man he is now, he could have prevented the course of events of the Time-War.

* DyingDream: As Cinder dies she imagines being with her family while she was six.

* AssholeVictim: Karlax

* MercyKill: Borusa asks the Doctor to perform this on him in exchange for his help. Ultimately he dies when he destroys the Daleks.

* HeroicSacrifice: Cinder gets shot saving the Doctor from Karlax.]]

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Borusa again, who has been turned into a "possibility engine", seeing all of space-time.]]

* CallForward: [[spoiler:Borusa as the "possibility engine" gains omniscience and omnipotence by absorbing the time vortex, just like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays Rose as the Bad Wolf Entity]]. He also uses his power to wipe an army of Daleks from existence.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Cinder's death is what finally makes the Doctor willing to use the Moment to commit genocide, after risking everything to prevent the Time Lords from doing the same thing.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Cinder gets shot saving the Doctor from Karlax.]]
* LuredIntoATrap: The Doctor does this to Dalek ships, enabling battle [=TARDISes=] to destroy them. [[spoiler:Then it turns out to be a Dalek trap and the Battle [=TARDISes=] are destroyed by Dalek Stealth Ships.]]
* MercyKill: Borusa asks the Doctor to perform this on him in exchange for his help. [[spoiler:Ultimately he dies when he destroys the Daleks.]]
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: How the Time Lords try to justify closing the Eye of Tantalus, even though it will destroy 12 worlds and kill billions. [[spoiler:The Doctor decides it would be better to destroy the Daleks than saving Cinder, though the latter was due to her wanting him to do so.]]

* TheQuisling: Jocelyn Harris, who used to be the elected leader of Moldox. [[spoiler: She is RewardedAsATraitorDeserves when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer needed]].]]
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:Borusa briefly becomes this as he goes further into the Tantalus Spiral. Not only can he see possible timelines, he is able to pull possibilities into existence. At the Doctor's command he destroys all trace of the Daleks in the Tantalus Spiral.]]
* RetGone: The Daleks have devised dematerialization weapons which do this. [[spoiler:They are planning to do this to Gallifrey.]]

* SaveTheVillain: Even though Karlax tried to kill him, when his TARDIS is wrecked by the Daleks the Doctor saves him. [[spoiler:Subverted later. After Karlax kills Cinder the Doctor dematerialises the TARDIS around him, leaving Karlax surrounded by Daleks. He is quickly exterminated.]]

* LuredIntoATrap: The Doctor does this to Dalek ships, enabling battle TARDISes to destroy them. [[spoiler:Then it turns out to be a Dalek trap and the Battle TARDISes are destroyed by Dalek Stealth Ships.]]

* HairpinLockpick: played with the Time Lords created a intricate lock that sonic proof that someone might unlock via a different cruder method.

* TheNeedsOfTheMany: How the Time Lords try to justify closing the Eye of Tantalus, even though it will destroy 12 worlds and kill billions. [[spoiler:The Doctor decides it would be better to destroy the Daleks then save Cinder though the latter was due to her wanting him to do so.]]

* TheNeedsOfTheMany: How the Time Lords try to justify closing the Eye of Tantalus, even though it will destroy 12 worlds and kill billions. [[spoiler:The Doctor decides it would be better to destroy the Daleks then save Cinder.]]

* SaveTheVillain: Even though Karlax tried to kill him, when his TARDIS is wrecked by the Daleks the Doctor saves him. [[spoiler:Subverted later. After Karlax kills Cinder the Doctor dematerialises the TARDIS around him, leaving Karlax surrounded by Daleks.]]

The first story entirely featuring the [[Creator/JohnHurt War Doctor]]. It is set during the Time War.

* SaveTheVillain: Even though Karlax tried to kill him, when his TARDIS is wrecked by the Daleks the Doctor saves him.

* RippleEffectProofMemory: Cinder doesn't remember Finch but feels something is odd. The Doctor knows he detected two life signs.

* InSpiteOfANail: The Skaro Degradations were created from the Time Lords meddling with Dalek history, however whatever they do the Daleks reassert themselves.

* TheNeedsOfTheMany: How the Time Lords try to justify closing the Eye of Tantalus, even though it will destroy 12 worlds and kill billions.

* NeedsOfTheMany: How the Time Lords try to justify closing the Eye of Tantalus, even though it will destroy 12 worlds and kill billions.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Further shown with the Time Lords and the Doctor.

* RetGone: What a Degradation does to Finch.

* TestedOnHumans: What the Daleks have done with their new weapons to people on Moldox and the other worlds of the Tantalus Spiral.

* TheQuisling: Jocelyn Harris, who used to be the elected leader of Moldox.

* TestedOnHumans: What the Daleks do with their weapons.

* InSpiteOfANail: The Skaro Degradations were created from the Time Lords meddling with Dalek history, however whatever they do the Daleks reassert themselves.

* AlienInvasion: What the Daleks have done to Moldox.