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{{quote|''"What are you exactly--some sort of wandering Armageddon peddler?"''|'''Adam Colby,''' to the Doctor; not too far off the mark, really}}
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The Fendahl are defeated and the Doctor throws the skull into a nearby supernova before getting down to the business of repairing K-9.
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Tyler loads his shotgun with rock salt at the Doctor and his grandmother's urging, which successfully takes down the Fendahleen.
** A bit of [[Truth in Television]], as rock salt is sometimes loaded into shotguns to cause pain but little damage. See ''[[Kill Bill]]''.
* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: sort of.
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* [[Cult]]
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Fendahl
* [[Green Rooming]]: Introduced in the previous story, [[Robot Buddy]] K-9 promptly breaks down for the duration of the episode, whose script was written before K-9 was added to the cast.
* [[Hurl It Into the Sun]]: How the Doctor eventually disposes of the Fendahl Skull
* [[Leave Behind a Pistol]]: The Doctor leaves the villain a gun when he's frozen in place by the Fendahl, so he can [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|kill himself rather than
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* [[Life Energy]]: The Fendahl consumes "the full spectrum of Life Energy", causing rapid decay of the corpses it leaves.
* [[Made of Indestructium]]: The skull, although the Doctor seems confident that tossing it into a supernova will finally kill it.
** [[Expanded Universe]] [[Oh Crap|says no]].
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Dr. Fendelman, who has no idea that it is his hidden genetic destiny to aid an ancient and malevolent life force known as the Fendahl; the name is an in-story indication that the Fendahl has been meddling with humanity for a long time.
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* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: The Fendahl.
* [[Quieter Than Silence]]
* [[Pivotal Wakeup]]
* [[Power Glows]]: The Fendahl skull glows when scanned.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Limited - Adam Colby somehow manages to completely unbutton his shirt while tied to a pillar.
* [[Sound
* [[Spot of Tea]]: specifically, tea and fruitcake bring Mrs. Tyler back from the brink.
* [[Tarot Troubles]]: While waiting for the Doctor to return from a fact-gathering excursion, Mrs Tyler does a tarot reading, and is disturbed when [[Tarot Motifs|The Tower]] (which depicts a tower being violently destroyed by lightning, and is considered a bad omen) turns up in the spread.
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* [[Was Once a Man]]
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Rock salt is deadly to Fendahleen.
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