1 | [[Creator/PeterDavison The Doctor]] and his companions [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho136Cobwebs Nyssa]], Tegan and Turlough are in Calcutta, visiting for the Doctor's favourite pasttime. Cricket. But before they can see the match, a creature-that-was-once-a-man attacks the crowd, and [[TheVirus bites Nyssa]]. Nyssa contracts what the Doctor thinks is rabies, and the TARDIS gets stolen onto a private train! A chase occurs, obviously. |
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3 | But in the jungles of India, the undiscovered country, they find a literal beast with emerald eyes, it spreads darkness where it goes, and will mean the death of everybody it comes across. |
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5 | !! The Emerald Tiger contains examples of the following tropes: |
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7 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Tegan]] rides in on an ''elephant'' to scare off the monsters and save the day. |
8 | * BodyHorror: Nyssa's transformation is extremely painful and involuntary. |
9 | * CallBack: Nyssa mentions Terminus. |
10 | * CallForward: Turlough mentions that he [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E3Frontios doesn't like caves]]. |
11 | %%* ChaseScene: Between a train and a hot air balloon. |
12 | * ChekhovsGun: Giving Tegan the TARDIS key. |
13 | * ContinuityNod: |
14 | ** When Turlough grumps about not liking the reason they're in Calcutta being a cricket match, the Doctor mentions he should have a word with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion the Brigadier]] about his [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead education]]. |
15 | ** Nyssa asks the Doctor if he's playing himself, like at [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid Cranleigh Hall]]. |
16 | ** Nyssa mentions she's had a [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho136Cobwebs history]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus researching diseases]]. |
17 | * DisneyDeath: Nyssa. Having reintroduced the character at a point after her televised departure, Big Finish are clearly delighting in teasing the very real possibility that they could permanently kill off an original series companion. |
18 | * DistinctionWithoutADifference: |
19 | --> '''Tegan:''' Your tiger is going to eat a friend of mine! |
20 | --> '''Lady Forrester:''' No. Kill him, yes. Eat him? No. |
21 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: The Doctor is not the world's best driver. |
22 | %%* EasyAmnesia: Professor Narayan |
23 | * FountainOfYouth: As a side effect of the healing energy given to Nyssa at the end of the story. Not only is she cured of the werebeast virus, she is de-aged several decades. Tegan notes she looks exactly as she did when they parted company in "Terminus". |
24 | * FriendshipMoment: The Doctor is overjoyed to find out [[spoiler:Tegan]] isn't dead, and tells her that the universe just wouldn't be as interesting without her in it. Naturally, she agrees. |
25 | * GoToAlias: The Doctor introduces himself as "Dr. Smith" to a hot air balloon pilot. |
26 | %%* GratuitousFrench: Tegan employs some. |
27 | %%* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Major Haggard. |
28 | * HungryJungle: Thanks to an alien entity controlling most of the flora and fauna. |
29 | * LimitedWardrobe: Turlough averts it for once, swapping out his school uniform (something he ''never'' did in the series) in trade for a [[SharpDressedMan three piece suit]] in order to better fit in during the time period. |
30 | * LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Killing off [[spoiler:Tegan]] fools no one. |
31 | * LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Jahn is actually Jonathan, Lady Adela's son whom she thought died in the jungle as a toddler.]] |
32 | %%* MacGuffin: The Emerald Tiger. |
33 | %%* MauveShirt: Edgar. |
34 | * MegaManning: Djahnn devours Dawon and Narayan in order to add their power to him. |
35 | * MegaNeko: |
36 | ---> '''Jonathan''': [[WhamLine Bigcat on the water]]. |
37 | * MixAndMatchCritters: The substance the Emerald Tiger is made of functions as a medical adhesive, which rearranges biological makeup to make healthier ones. Accidentally creating ruby-beetles, and flying frogs and the such. |
38 | * NubileSavage: Jonathan is a male version, running around the jungle in a loincloth, and Tegan describes him as having a "surfer's build". |
39 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Dawon spends some time pretending to be just a dumb animal, if an extremely exotic one. |
40 | %%* OlderThanTheyLook: Professor Narayan. Hugely. |
41 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Doctor is distraught enough over [[spoiler:Tegan's]] demise that he rounds on Turlough in a blunt fury when he suggests not putting themselves into more danger, and goes so far as to tell him to leave the TARDIS if he doesn't follow orders. |
42 | * OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Victims of the Emerald Tiger can turn themselves into giant tigers, but with each transformation returning to human form becomes more and more difficult. |
43 | * QuintessentialBritishGentleman: The Doctor brings the TARDIS team to India, 1926 ... for a ''cricket'' match. |
44 | %%* SharpDressedMan: Turlough. |
45 | * ShoutOut: |
46 | ** [[Literature/TheJungleBook Tigers, snakes called Kaa, bears called Balloo, India, and jungles]]. |
47 | ** Tegan refers to the giant tiger creature as [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Pussy Galore]]. |
48 | ** According to the bonus material, ''all'' not-TARDIS crew characters are named after adventure book writers like '''Edgar''' (Rice Burroughs), etc. |
49 | ** '''Tegan''': Me Tegan, you John! |
50 | ** The Doctor warns against falling over a makeshift bridge with crocodiles under it, reminding the crew of "[[Literature/PeterPan Captain Hook]]". |
51 | %%* TalkingAnimal: Dawon. |
52 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Jonathan, functioning as a Tarzan homage. |
53 | * {{Unobtanium}}: The Tiger Emerald is a substance called Hemogonite which can alter genetic makeup in order to heal wounds better. It crash-landed onto Earth millennia ago. |
54 | %%* UpThroughTheRanks: Major Cyril Haggard. |
55 | * VindicatedByHistory: The [[InvertedTrope inverted]] of this, really. Darwin gets invoked, and it's pointed out how peers view him as a madman. |
56 | %%* TheVirus: The tiger transformation functions in this way. |
57 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Tegan and Turlough, even when one has just come back from apparently certain death. |
58 | %%* WouldHitAGirl: Major Haggard. |
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