Line #58 Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho159TheEmeraldTiger


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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