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[[File:math_badge_8760.jpg|frame|[[Hamlet|The rest…]] [[Silent Credits|is silence.]]]]
{{quote|''Now I'll never know if I was right.''|'''
Otherwise known as "[[The One With...|the serial in which Adric dies]]."
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Meanwhile, the people stuck in the TARDIS decide to go see what happened to the Doctor and Adric, only to find a few Cybermen running around. Much hiding and stealth ensues. Back on the bridge, the Cybermen nearly break through by melting one of the doors... until the Doctor manages to re-solidify said door around a lone Cyberman in a pretty neat scene. Of course, the Cybermen just blow up the other door and take the bridge anyhow. Bragging, the Cyber-Leader activates all the remaining Cybermen on the ship, proudly announcing how he's won the day - but not before [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|killing off the security chief]]. [[For the Evulz|Because he could]].
Finally, the Cyber-Leader [[Evil Gloating|announces his plan]], which is so vast that it requires about 15,000 Cyber units. There is a massive meeting of governments that will unite all those peoples against the Cybermen. So the Cybermen have decided to break up the meeting, which makes sense. Turns out that little shoebox-sized bomb the Doctor deactivated in the caves was powerful enough to ''destroy everyone and everything on the planet's surface'', proving that the Cybermen firmly believe that [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]. The Doctor thwarted their attempt to detonate the bomb, but the Cyber-Leader has a contingency
Regardless, Tegan is captured and dragged to the bridge while Scott and a few other humans run around blowing up Cybermen... but spending most of their time hiding from them. The Doctor makes a show of bravado until Tegan is threatened, and the Cyber-Leader claims that this is the weakness of organics. The Doctor claims otherwise, wondering when the Cybermen enjoyed the laughter of a child or sat down to have a nice meal together. The Cyber-Leader also heads out to the TARDIS to make his escape with a few other Cybermen. At this time, Scott's Commandos break onto the Bridge and pretty much slaughter most of the Cybermen there. Unfortunately, the ship's hyperdrive is damaged, sending the freighter careening back in time, meaning that the Earth of the future may be safe but the Earth of the past ''(and thus, all future)'' is now in danger.
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Fed up with the talking, Tegan jumps on the Cyber-Leader and fiercely attacks him by... hugging him from behind. The Doctor then shoves Adric's golden badge all up in the Leader's face, suffocating it with its weakness, but not before it shoots and damages the TARDIS console. And then the Doctor shoots him repeatedly in the chest anyway for good measure.<ref>Five can be a vindictive bastard sometimes.</ref> Adric, for his part, is nearly done screwing up history when a lone, near-death Cyberman prevents Adric by blowing up the console. The Doctor excuses as to why he can't save Adric, and we watch Adric's ship ram itself into the surface of the Earth, killing off all the Dinosaurs and making way for Man... with Adric along for the ride.
Watch it [http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x10h0n_tardismedia_earthshock here]{{Dead link}}
* [[Action Girl]]: Against all
** Plus at least a third of the soldiers are female, instead of the usual token female guest star amongst an all-male battalion.
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: Dinosaurs are described as a "species". As in, just one.
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* [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]]: Whenever the 1980s version of the [[Large Ham|Cyber Leader]] is involved, expect wall-to-wall scene chewing from ''at least'' one other actor. Such as [[Peter Davison]] in this serial, who tries to out-ham his enemy with all he can muster.
* [[It Was His Sled]]: The fact that the Cybermen were the villains of the story was a twist they went great lengths to hide until the cliffhanger of the first episode (See [[Trailers Always Spoil]] below). At the time it was highly unexpected since the Cybermen had not [[Doctor Who/Recap/S12/E05 Revenge of the Cybermen|appeared]] in the series for seven years. Today it is widely known; a Cyberman is even featured on the DVD cover.
* [[Large Ham]]: The Cyber Leader, of all people. "My army awaits, DOCTORRR!" Throughout the episode, he displays anger, pride, irritation, even malicious smugness. It's even
{{quote|''Compared to some, this one is positively flippant.''}}
** Even a ''single word sentence'' from the Cyber Leader becomes hamtastic, thanks to how it's read out each and every single time.
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* [[Missing Episode]]: The reason for the story mismatch in the flashbacks is that ''The Tomb of the Cybermen'' had yet to turn up.
* [[Silent Credits]]: At the end of the last episode.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: Averted to truly heroic levels. The show's producer went to enormous lengths to keep the Cybermen's return secret, resulting in a famous [[Oh Crap]] moment when Episode 2 aired
: This is such a hard aversion that producer John Nathan-Turner actually avoided getting a cover shoot on the ''Radio Times'' in order to keep the secret as secret as possible, also insisted the cast listings in the same magazine simply referred to the Cybermen with speaking parts as "Alien Leader", "Alien Lieutenant", etc.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: The gold. See 'Flanderization.'
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Companion death has always been very rare. "Earthshock" intensified the effect by silently rolling the credits over a picture of Adric's badge, smashed beyond repair. While that's the biggest WHAM part of the episode it also has further value: Back when it first aired, the Cybermen being the villains was a well kept secret which also adds to the shock value. But both twists have suffered [[It Was His Sled]] at this point.
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