History Recap / NewSeriesAdventuresEnginesOfWar

* NotSoDifferent: The Daleks and the Time Lords. ''Especially'' Rassilon.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: A major theme in the story. The Time Lords are shown becoming no different than their enemies the Daleks during the Time-War, as they [[spoiler:decide to wipe all the Daleks in the system, and arrogantly place themselves above billions of people, who also will die from the drop of the bomb]].

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

%% * NotSoDifferent: The Daleks and the Time-Lords. ''Especially'' Rassilon.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: A major theme in the story. The Time Lords are shown becoming this, as they [[spoiler: decide to wipe all the Daleks in the system, and arrogantly place themselves above billions of people, who also will die from the drop of the bomb.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Borderline Downer Ending. The Doctor and Cynder save people from destruction by Time Lords, Borusa makes a HeroicSacrifice and destroys all the Daleks in the system... but Cynder is killed, Time Lords have become villains, and Doctor decides to finish the war by destruction of both sides.]]

* MercyKill:
** The Doctor performs one on several humans being converted into Kaled mutants.
** Borusa asks the Doctor to perform this on him in exchange for his help. Ultimately he dies when he destroys the Daleks.

* NotSoDifferent: The Daleks and the Time-Lords. ''Especially'' Rassilon.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Time Lords High Council and Partheus.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: A major theme in the story. The Time Lords are shown becoming this, as they [[spoiler: decide to wipe all the Daleks in the system, and arrogantly place themselves above people, who will die from the drop of the bomb.]]

[[spoiler: * BittersweetEnding: Borderline Downer Ending. The Doctor and Cynder save people from destruction by Time Lords, Borusa makes a HeroicSacrifice and destroys all the Daleks in the system... but Cynder is dead, Time Lords have become villains, and Doctor decides to finish the war by destruction of both sides.]]

%% * HeWhoFightsMonsters: A major theme in the story. The Time Lords are shown becoming this.

%% * MercyKill:
%% ** The Doctor performs one on several humans being converted into Kaled mutants.
%% ** Borusa asks the Doctor to perform this on him in exchange for his help. Ultimately he dies when he destroys the Daleks.

%% * NotSoDifferent: The Daleks and the Time-Lords. ''Especially'' Rassilon.

%% * WellIntentionedExtremist: The Time Lords High Council and Partheus.

$$ * TakeMeToYourLeader: The Doctor actually uses this on the Daleks.

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

The first story entirely featuring the [[Creator/JohnHurt War Doctor]]. It is set during the Time War, and leads into the events of "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheLastDay The Last Day]]" and then "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]"

* ActionGirl: Cinder.
* AndIMustScream: Borusa [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors again]], who has been turned into a "possibility engine", seeing all of space-time.
* AlienInvasion: What the Daleks are trying to do to all space-time.
* ApologeticAttacker: The Doctor to one of Patheus' pilots before knocking him out.
* AssholeVictim: Karlax.
* BadassGay: Cinder.

* BatmanGambit: The Doctor at one point surrenders to the Daleks, knowing fully well they aren't going to straight up exterminate him, but rather bring him exactly where he wanted to go.

* BeleagueredBureaucrat: The Castellan.

* BoundAndGagged: What happens to Cinder when she is being interrogated using a MindProbe.

* ChewingTheScenery: Rassilon (the Timothy Dalton incarnation) even ''sprays spittle''.

* ContinuityNod: The Doctor once again visits the Death Zone, and the events of [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]] are briefly recapped.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: It's mentioned Rassilon has outdated views and is basically a bigot.

* TheDreaded: ''Nobody'' wants to approach the Time-Lord president, Rassilon. For ''good'' reason if we take [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho064TheNextLife a good look]] [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors at his past]]. Even more meaningful seeing as we knew that in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime in his future he was planning the end of the universe]].

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Or whatever alien equivalent roams the Death Zone on Gallifrey.
* FieryRedhead: Cinder.

* ForeShadowing: Rassilon at first is seen plotting a lot of nasty things that involve the council.
** Later on, Cinder discovers several "paintings" that show the Doctor's potential future. One of them is a redhead on the TARDIS floor.
* HairpinLockpick: The Time Lords created a intricate, sonic proof lock that someone might unlock via a different, cruder method.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: A major theme in the story. The Time Lords are shown becoming this.
* HeroicSacrifice: Cinder gets shot saving the Doctor from Karlax.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Averted by the Daleks. They adapt their armor so the energies of their demat guns can be safely dispersed if they were to be used on them.

* MercyKill: The Doctor performs one on several humans being converted into Kaled mutants.
** Borusa asks the Doctor to perform this on him in exchange for his help. Ultimately he dies when he destroys the Daleks.
* MindProbe: The TropeNamer is used, and the results are shown to be quite unpleasant.

* NotSoDifferent: The Daleks and the Time-Lords. ''Especially'' Rassilon.

* PunchClockVillain: The Castellan, who helps use the mind probe on Cinder on Karlax's orders but is clearly very upset about doing so and shows the Doctor where Cinder is. Later he helps the Doctor escape Gallifrey, despite knowing he'll probably get executed for this.
** Partheus is implied to be this as well. He even lets the Doctor go after they stop him using the Tear on the Spiral.
* TheQuisling: Jocelyn Harris, who used to be the elected leader of Moldox. She is RewardedAsATraitorDeserves when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer needed]].

* RedBaron: The Doctor, towards the Daleks, has collected a wide array of nicknames.
* RetGone: The Daleks have devised dematerialisation weapons which do this. They are planning to do this to Gallifrey.

* RuleOfSymbolism: When the Doctor discovers what happened to Borusa, it's hard not to imagine religious symbolism.

* SmugSnake: Karlax.
* SpannerInTheWorks: The Doctor, as per usual.
* SwirlyEnergyThingy: The eye above Moldox is an opening to the Eye, which has all of history passing through it at once. It looks a bit like the Northern lights, and obstructs the light of the stars.
* TakeMeToYourLeader: The Doctor actually uses this on the Daleks.

* TestedOnHumans: What the Daleks have done with their new weapons to people on Moldox and the other worlds of the Tantalus Spiral.
* VillainousRescue: Karlax manages to steer the Doctor's TARDIS around the Cinder and the Doctor so that the latter doesn't get converted into a new superweapon. Though not [[BatmanGambit entirely by choice]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Time Lords High Council and Partheus.
* XanatosGambit: A large part of the mining of the Tantulus eye, the provoking the Time Lords into action, was all to provoke the Doctor, hoping that the resulting path would lead him (with or without the Tear of Ishtar) into Dalek, erm, plungers? So that instead of employing their Gallifrey destroying weapon, (which would still net them their victory) they would have the Doctor in the Eternity Circle, where they could remove his emotions and encase him into their newly built [[MeaningfulName Predator Dalek]].

* BeleagueredBureaucrat: The Castallan.

* DyingDream: As [[spoiler: Cinder]] dies, [[spoiler: her last visions]] are of the family, in perfect bliss, when [[spoiler: she was just]] aged six.

* ActorAllusion: Obviously, the obvious way to describe [[Creator/JohnHurt the "Doctor"]] and [[Creator/TimothyDalton Rassilon]] were the way they looked in the series when they appeared.
** Rassilon even ''sprays spittle''.

* BonusMaterial: George Mann wrote a StoryArc for VideoGame/DoctorWhoLegacy, in which the War Doctor goes back in time after the events of the novel and rescues Cinder, knowing that the general TimeCrash happening in Legacy would keep the Web of Time from shredding as a result. (This doesn't affect the novel -- the events of Legacy are understood, in-game, to have no lasting impact on the lives of the characters involved, since time itself is collapsing. Which doesn't stop the War Doctor from trying to save Cinder regardless.)

* BonusMaterial: George Mann wrote a StoryArc for VideoGame/DoctorWhoLegacy, in which the War Doctor goes back in time after the events of the novel and rescues Cinder, knowing that the general TimeCrash happening in Legacy would keep the Web of Time from shredding as a result.

* ActorAllusion: Obviously, for obvious reasons, the obvious way to describe [[Creator/JohnHurt the "Doctor"]] and [[Creator/TimothyDalton Rassilon]] were the way they looked in the series when they appeared.
** Rassilon even ''sprays spittle''

* AmbiguouslyBi: Cinder, if she's not a full on Lesbian. The story doesn't (and can't) take much time exploring this.

* AscendedFanon: [[Creator/RussellTDavies Russell T Davies]] once suggested that the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]] was the start of the Time War, the Doctor having been plucked out of his own timestream to stop the Daleks from being created. This book confirms it.

* BackFromTheDead: The Doctor alludes that Rassilon rose from the grave in order to lead the Time-Lords in the Time-War.

** 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.

** Borusa as the "possibility engine" gains omniscience and omnipotence by absorbing the time vortex, just like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays Rose as the Bad Wolf]]. He also uses his power to wipe an army of Daleks from existence.

** There's a weapon the Time-Lords think can stop the war. It's first thought to be [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Moment]] from the Omega arsenal.

* ClarkesThirdLaw: Cinder can't tell most Time-Lord technology apart from magic.
* ContinuityNod: The Doctor once again visits the Deathzone, and the events of [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors the Five Doctors]] is briefly recapped.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Or whatever alien equivalent roams the Death zone on Gallifrey.

* TheNthDoctor: The Doctor, of course, gets a reference here and there about past lives, but Karlax regenerates from a somewhat wiry white man into a more tall, dark and muscular incarnation.

* RaceLift: InUniverse, Karlax becomes "[[AmbiguouslyBrown dark skinned]]" as opposed to his original incarnation.

* RetGone: The Daleks have devised dematerialization weapons which do this. They are planning to do this to Gallifrey.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: When people are erased by the Daleks Temporal Weapons memories are retained but people can't put them together. However the Doctor knows what has happened.

* XanatosGambit: A large part of the mining of the Tantulus eye, the provoking the Time-Lords into action, was all to provoke the Doctor, hoping that the resulting path would lead him (with or without the Tear of Ishtar) into Dalek, erm, plungers? So that instead of employing their Gallifrey destroying weapon, (which would still net them their victory) they would have the Doctor in the Eternity Circle, where they could remove his emotions and encase him into their newly built [[MeaningfulName Predator Dalek]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Time-Lords tried altering the course of Dalek history. Giving the Daleks the idea to try and alter the course of Dalek history.

* PunchClockVillain: The Castellan, who helps use the mind probe on Cinder but is clearly very upset about doing so. Later he helps the Doctor escape Gallifrey, despite knowing he'll probably get executed for this.

* RaceLift: InUniverse, Karlax becomes "[[AmbigiouslyBrown dark skinned]]" as opposed to his original incarnation.

* BiTheWay: Cinder, if she's not a full on Lesbian. The story doesn't (and can't) take much time exploring this.

* CallBack: Cinder's reaction when entering the TARDIS and realising the Doctor is a Time Lord is similar to that of Cass from [[Recap/TheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]].

* CallForward: Borusa as the "possibility engine" gains omniscience and omnipotence by absorbing the time vortex, just like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays Rose as the Bad Wolf]]. He also uses his power to wipe an army of Daleks from existence.

* AscendedFanon: [[Creator/RusselTDavies Russel T Davies]] once suggested that the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]] was the start of the Time War, the Doctor having been plucked out of his own timestream to stop the Daleks from being created. This book confirms it.

* TakeTheBullet: Cinder jumps in between a shot fired by Karlax and the Doctor.

** A version of the [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor War Doctor]] with a [[Creator/BilliePiper girl in rags]] in front of a red flower is shown, along with [[Creator/DavidTennant a thin figure with a blue suit]], a [[Creator/JonPertwee bouffant with a cape and silver hair]] and a woman with red hair by the TARDIS console.

* ForeShadowing: Rassilon never quite appears in the story, always busy in "matters".

* VillainousRescue: Karlax manages to steer the Doctor's TARDIS around the Cinder and the Doctor so that the latter doesn't get converted into a new superweapon.

* NotSoDifferent: The Daleks and the Time-Lords.

* TheCavalry: Borusa manages to steer the Doctor's TARDIS around the Cinder and the Doctor so that the latter doesn't get converted into a new superweapon.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Time Lords High Council and Partheus.