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--> '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis "WHO! AM! I?!?"]]'''''

--> '''The Master''': ''[Swanning in wearing a Time Lord robe and striking a pose]'' I always ''dreeeeeess'' for the occasion.\\

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The offscreen Daleks manage to be this despite being completely unseen due to some truly awful sound design. Due to the fact that the illusion of many Daleks was created by taking a voice clip recorded at normal speed and then just speeding it up a lot to fit multiple repetitions of it into the very short scene, and the fact that they aren't even ring-modulated, they all have comically squeaky voices that sounds neither cool nor anything like Daleks.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/EricRoberts as the Master (though this has to do with ExecutiveMeddling, see the "Trivia" page).

** Music/JohnDebney's orchestral score; a sumptuous blend of danger, fear and tenderness, all in an ambience of awed wonder.

** Even more of a wasted character was Gordon Tipple's version of The Master, referred to as "The Old Master" in the closing credits. Despite him getting an interesting costume design reminiscent of Creator/RogerDelgado, unique character makeup, and recording an opening monologue establishing him as a unique incarnation from Creator/AnthonyAinley, practically none of this was used in the final film. He is only seen from a distance for a few seconds, with his appearance obscured, and dies within those few seconds without even saying anything. This led most fans to believe that he was simply TheOtherDarrin for Creator/AnthonyAinley despite the initial plans of establishing him as his own incarnation. Even without a major role in the film, giving him ''any'' actual material would have opened up an opportunity for plenty of FanficFuel about this version of The Master, similar to how Geoffrey Beevers and Derek Jacobi also essentially played old versions of The Master only meant to set up the next actor in the role, but were given enough time to still be memorable. This case of the trope even continues into ExpandedUniverse material, as [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish]] has never brought Gordon Tipple back to flesh out his portrayal of The Master despite them doing that for Creator/EricRoberts' Master.

** Even more of a wasted character was Gordon Tipple's version of The Master, referred to as "The Old Master" in the closing credits. Despite him getting an interesting costume design reminiscent of Creator/RogerDelgado, unique character makeup, and recording an opening monologue establishing him as a unique incarnation from Creator/AnthonyAinley, practically none of this was used in the final film. He is only seen from a distance for a few seconds, with his appearance obscured, and dies within those few seconds without even saying anything. This led most fans to believe that he was simply TheOtherDarrin for Creator/AnthonyAinley despite the initial plans of establishing him as his own incarnation. Even without a major role in the film, giving him ''any'' actual material would have opened up an opportunity for plenty of FanficFuel about this version of The Master. This case of the trope even continues into ExpandedUniverse material, as [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish]] has never brought Gordon Tipple back to flesh out his portrayal of The Master despite them doing that for Creator/EricRoberts' Master.

** Even more of a wasted character was Gordon Tipple's version of The Master, referred to as "The Old Master" in the credits. Despite him getting an interesting costume design reminiscent of Creator/RogerDelgado, unique character makeup, and recording an opening monologue establishing him as a unique incarnation from Creator/AnthonyAinley, which would have opened up an opportunity for plenty of FanficFuel about this version of The Master, practically none of this was used in the final film. He is only seen from a distance for a few seconds, with his appearance obscured, and dies within those few seconds without even saying anything. This led most fans to believe that he was simply TheOtherDarrin for Creator/AnthonyAinley despite the initial plans of establishing him as his own incarnation. This case of the trope even continues into ExpandedUniverse material, as Creator/BigFinish has never brought Gordon Tipple back to flesh out his portrayal of The Master despite them doing that for Creator/EricRoberts' Master.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Creator/SylvesterMcCoy returns to hand over the reigns to Creator/PaulMcGann, yet he barely has any lines, doesn't do anything of note, has none of his previous characteristics and dies possibly the second most undignified death of any Doctor[[note]]And unlike [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani THE]] most undignified death, there's basically no way for a story like ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure The Last Adventure]]'' to fix it without severely mucking with the canon more than the film already does[[/note]].
** Doing and saying nothing was by executive mandate and was the only way the execs would allow Syl back for the movie. The undignified death is on the writers though.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Creator/SylvesterMcCoy returns to hand over the reigns to Creator/PaulMcGann, yet he barely has any lines, doesn't do anything of note, has none of his previous characteristics and dies possibly the second most undignified death of any Doctor.

** "Un Bel Di" from ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' perfectly complements the confused desperation of the Seventh Doctor's [[MedicalHorror final moments]].

** The Master frequently declared that [[FoeYay he 'wanted the Doctor's body']] or something along those lines. The bondage-gear thing he put the Doctor in doesn't help. He just had that lying around, did he?

** The pre-titles scene. An outer-space shot of Skaro, its radiation-charred surface sumptuously detailed with little wisps of cloud and barren, tectonic contours, is a lovely piece of model work, and even recalls that seen in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E7TheSpaceMuseum The Space Museum]]''. The transition from outer space to a void-framed close-up of the Master's glowing eyes; to a distant shot of his imprisonment in some kind laser-barred cage, followed by the surreally distorted Dalek voices, has a wonderfully eerie, dream-like quality.

* WhatAnIdiot: The TARDIS arrives in San Francisco amidst a gang war.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The Doctor to check the scanners to see what it's like outside.\\
'''Instead''': He leaves the TARDIS without checking the scanners and is promptly shot. This leads to him getting hospitalised where he dies on the operating table and eventually regenerates.\\
'''For added stupidity''': This is the Seventh Doctor, the most cunning and calculating of the Doctors, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol who once talked down a man pointing a gun at him]].

* FanonDiscontinuity: Whether the movie is considered canon or not depends on which particular fan you talk to. However, almost everyone agrees that at the very least, the Doctor ''never'' said he was half-human (or if he did, then he was lying). However with the New Series clearly acknowledging the Eighth Doctor as canon, basically everyone will now say the Movie is as canon as any Doctor Who story, though the "half-human" bit is still a matter of debate (for what it's worth, Russell T. Davies intended to handwave it during the coffee shop scene in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]] as the Doctor having been a bit delirious from post-regenerative trauma, though he had to cut the reference out to avoid the possibility of ContinuityLockout).

* FridgeBrilliance: While [[OmnicidalManiac the Daleks]]' decision to prefix an extermination with a trial is often considered [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim uncharacteristic]], Creator/BigFinish play ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho201WeAreTheDaleks We Are the Daleks]]'' has the Daleks put the Doctor on trial - because they want the galaxy to know they're about to off a legendary foe.

** "Un Bel Di" from ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' perfectly captures the confused desperation of the Seventh Doctor's [[MedicalHorror final moments]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/JohnDebney's orchestral score; a sumptuous blend of danger, fear and tenderness, all in a whimsical ambience of awed wonder.

** The pre-titles scene. An outer-space shot of Skaro, its radiation-charred surface sumptuously detailed with little wisps of cloud and barren, tectonic contours, is a lovely piece of model work, and even recalls that seen in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E7TheSpaceMuseum The Space Museum]]. The transition from outer space to a void-framed close-up of the Master's glowing eyes; to a distant shot of his imprisonment in some kind laser-barred cage, followed by the surreally distorted Dalek voices, has a wonderfully eerie, dream-like quality.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Whether the movie is considered canon or not depends on which particular fan you talk to. However, almost everyone agrees that at the very least, the Doctor ''never'' said he was half-human (or if he did, then he was lying). However with the New Series clearly acknowledging the Eighth Doctor as canon, basically everyone will now say the Movie is as canon as any Doctor Who story, though the "half-human" bit is still a matter of debate (for what it's worth, Russel T. Davies intended to handwave it during the coffee shop scene in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]] as the Doctor having been a bit delirious from post-regenerative trauma, though he had to cut the reference out to avoid the possibility of ContinuityLockout).

*** The reason that they are so similar is that they are both an {{Expy}} of the same character who predated both of them by at least a decade: the Franchise/Terminator[[note]]well, the Terminator predates Roberts' version of the Master, anyway; the Master as a whole [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons debuted in 1971]], 13 years before the first ''Terminator'' film came out[[/note]]. Giving them both gold-colored cat eyes as opposed to the Terminator's red eyes is pure coincidence and hilarious in hindsight, however.

*** The reason that they are so similar is that they are both an {{Expy}} of the same character who predated both of them by at least a decade: Film/TheTerminator. Giving them both cat eyes as opposed to the Terminator’s red eyes is pure coincidence and hilarious in hindsight, however.