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Nightmare Fuel / Doctor Who Series 14

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  • "The Church on Ruby Road"
    • While they definitely have that strong stench of goof, that stops being funny the moment you realise how the goblins actually work.
      • The main one: they eat fucking babies. Like that isn't beyond messed up just by itself?!
      • And oh no, it gets worse! They're also capable of time travel. Which means they can - and do - go back in time to feast on someone while they're still an infant. And that just becomes more terrifying the longer you think of it.
      • To give you a good idea, just look at what happens when they decide to do this to Ruby near the end. The Doctor just turns around and she's gone, without a single trace. A few minutes later and he finds the entire timeline has changed (and not exactly for the better, not least for who we know anyway), with the kicker being that nobody even knows who she is, and there's not a single trace of her existence anywhere. Which of course the Doctor knows is a big problem, and it luckily doesn't take him long to piece two and two together. But still, it's a big problem, because at this point the only thing preventing Ruby from becoming a Ret-Goner is the Doctor's memory. Long story short, those goblins were this close to zapping Ruby from history harder than the crack in time did to Rory.
    • The Goblin King himself. He looks nothing like the others. He's an oversized Blob Monster that seems to be more of a freaky Slitheen-Jagrafess hybrid. And he's the one actually doing the chomping.

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