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=== Tropes ===
=== Tropes ===
* [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking]]: Used by the Doctor to mock Davros: "Crush the lesser races! Conquer the galaxy! Unimaginable power! Unlimited rice pudding! Et cetera! Et cetera!"
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Used by the Doctor to mock Davros: "Crush the lesser races! Conquer the galaxy! Unimaginable power! Unlimited rice pudding! Et cetera! Et cetera!"
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Mike and Radcliffe. Mike, when confronted by Ace about his racism, [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|doesn't even understand]] ''why'' she's furious.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Mike and Radcliffe. Mike, when confronted by Ace about his racism, [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|doesn't even understand]] ''why'' she's furious.
** [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] on that one. His racism was pretty much acceptable public opinion (or at least not far off) at the time.
** [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] on that one. His racism was pretty much acceptable public opinion (or at least not far off) at the time.
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* [[Batter Up]]: Giving us the '''''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=d7pg6pv9&trope=CrowningMomentOfAwesome original]''''' [[Moment of Awesome]].
* [[Batter Up]]: Giving us the '''''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=d7pg6pv9&trope=CrowningMomentOfAwesome original]''''' [[Moment of Awesome]].
{{quote| '''Dalek:''' {{smallcaps|Small human female sighted on Level 3}}.<br />
{{quote| '''Dalek:''' {{smallcaps|Small human female sighted on Level 3}}.<br />
'''Ace:''' ''[[Pre Ass Kicking One Liner|Who are you calling "small?!"]]'' ''[[[Batter Up]]]'' }}
'''Ace:''' ''[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Who are you calling "small?!"]]'' ''[[[Batter Up]]]'' }}
* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: The Doctor just waltzes in to Rachel's van and starts asking a lot of technical questions, and at first she doesn't bat an eye. It takes her about a minute to start cottoning on and asking just ''who'' he is.
* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: The Doctor just waltzes in to Rachel's van and starts asking a lot of technical questions, and at first she doesn't bat an eye. It takes her about a minute to start cottoning on and asking just ''who'' he is.
* [[Berserk Button]]: See [[Batter Up]], above.
* [[Berserk Button]]: See [[Batter Up]], above.
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* [[Death Is Cheap]]
* [[Death Is Cheap]]
* [[Did You Actually Believe]] I would let you have The Hand of Omega?
* [[Did You Actually Believe]] I would let you have The Hand of Omega?
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything]]: The [[Fantastic Racism]] of the Daleks is directly compared with the more prosaic unpleasantness of Nazi sympathiser Radcliffe and his organisation.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The [[Fantastic Racism]] of the Daleks is directly compared with the more prosaic unpleasantness of Nazi sympathiser Radcliffe and his organisation.
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: Actually, Skaro-Shattering, but it's the same idea.
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: Actually, Skaro-Shattering, but it's the same idea.
* [[Elite Mooks]]: Special Weapons Dalek (Pictured)
* [[Elite Mooks]]: Special Weapons Dalek (Pictured)
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* [[Guile Hero]]: This episode is the first real showing of the Seventh Doctor's [[The Chessmaster|manipulative]] side.
* [[Guile Hero]]: This episode is the first real showing of the Seventh Doctor's [[The Chessmaster|manipulative]] side.
* [[Go for The Eye]]: Ace + rocket launcher + this trope = Epic Win
* [[Go for The Eye]]: Ace + rocket launcher + this trope = Epic Win
* [[Hey Its That Guy]]: The guy in the cafe is [[Fresh Prince of Bel Air|Geoffrey the butler.]]
* [[Hey It's That Guy]]: The guy in the cafe is [[Fresh Prince of Bel Air|Geoffrey the butler.]]
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: The Imperial Daleks of course.
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: The Imperial Daleks of course.
* [[I Never Said It Was Poison]]: The mole gives himself away by asking the Doctor an honestly-curious question about the Daleks that reveals he already knows something about them that the Doctor never told him.
* [[I Never Said It Was Poison]]: The mole gives himself away by asking the Doctor an honestly-curious question about the Daleks that reveals he already knows something about them that the Doctor never told him.
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: The telly is cut off before it can announce the new show that is premiering that's called [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doc-]].
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The telly is cut off before it can announce the new show that is premiering that's called [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doc-]].
* [[No Swastikas]]: Ratcliffe and his groupies are hinted to be a miniature Hitler youth, though they could just as easily represent the National Front or some other nativist movement.
* [[No Swastikas]]: Ratcliffe and his groupies are hinted to be a miniature Hitler youth, though they could just as easily represent the National Front or some other nativist movement.
* [[Non Indicative Name]]: The Hand Of Omega.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: The Hand Of Omega.
* [[No One Could Survive That|Nothing Even Remotely Human Could've Survived That]]: But that's the point! It isn't even [[Trrrilling Rrrs|rrremotely]] human!
* [[No One Could Survive That|Nothing Even Remotely Human Could've Survived That]]: But that's the point! It isn't even [[Trrrilling Rrrs|rrremotely]] human!
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: "Is he all right?" "No idea--I'm a physicist."
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: "Is he all right?" "No idea--I'm a physicist."
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* [[Oh Crap]]: The Doctor's expression when, having escaped from a Dalek up a flight of stairs, he hears it powering up its antigravs.
* [[Oh Crap]]: The Doctor's expression when, having escaped from a Dalek up a flight of stairs, he hears it powering up its antigravs.
* [[Pin Pulling Teeth]]: In a possible allusion to this trope, the Doctor pops the cap off one of Ace's nitro-nine cannisters with his teeth.
* [[Pin Pulling Teeth]]: In a possible allusion to this trope, the Doctor pops the cap off one of Ace's nitro-nine cannisters with his teeth.
* [[Politically Correct History]]: Averted, for one of the few times in the history of ''Doctor Who''. Most noticeably with Ace discovering a "no coloureds allowed" sign. Mike Smith also makes reference to [[Does This Remind You of Anything|"keeping Britain pure"]]<ref> Ace has perhaps the most [[Backstory]] of any of the Classic companions. For one, as a child her friend Manisha's flat was firebombed by skinheads, so naturally she's less than pleased by both the sign and Mike's words</ref>.
* [[Politically Correct History]]: Averted, for one of the few times in the history of ''Doctor Who''. Most noticeably with Ace discovering a "no coloureds allowed" sign. Mike Smith also makes reference to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"keeping Britain pure"]]<ref> Ace has perhaps the most [[Backstory]] of any of the Classic companions. For one, as a child her friend Manisha's flat was firebombed by skinheads, so naturally she's less than pleased by both the sign and Mike's words</ref>.
** Not only that, but the black cafe worker who serves the Doctor notes that the existence of sugar is the reason why his grandfather was kidnapped from Africa to become a slave, and his family subsequently became English.
** Not only that, but the black cafe worker who serves the Doctor notes that the existence of sugar is the reason why his grandfather was kidnapped from Africa to become a slave, and his family subsequently became English.
* [[Powered By a Forsaken Child]]: Literally.
* [[Powered By a Forsaken Child]]: Literally.
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* [[Schmuck Bait]]: Launching something into the sun to increase its power? What did you ''think'' would happen, Davros?
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: Launching something into the sun to increase its power? What did you ''think'' would happen, Davros?
* [[Shock and Awe]]: The DBC's power.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: The DBC's power.
* [[Shut UP Hannibal]]
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]
* [[Skip of Innocence]]: The little girl skips around town {{spoiler|when she's not plugged into the Dalek battle computer}}. She's not exactly "innocent", though.
* [[Skip of Innocence]]: The little girl skips around town {{spoiler|when she's not plugged into the Dalek battle computer}}. She's not exactly "innocent", though.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Radcliffe spends most of the story strutting around acting like a little tinpot general. When the Renegade Daleks get the Hand of Omega and no longer need his services, however, it quickly becomes apparent that he's completely out of his depth.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Radcliffe spends most of the story strutting around acting like a little tinpot general. When the Renegade Daleks get the Hand of Omega and no longer need his services, however, it quickly becomes apparent that he's completely out of his depth.
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* [[Tele Frag]]: The Doctor manages to make this happen to a Dalek on itself, by fiddling with the machine so that half of the Dalek materializes where the other half would be.
* [[Tele Frag]]: The Doctor manages to make this happen to a Dalek on itself, by fiddling with the machine so that half of the Dalek materializes where the other half would be.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: The <s>Abomination</s> Special Weapons Dalek. When the white Daleks can't gain the upper hand, they wheel out this thing. No plunger, no egg whisk, no eyestalk -- just a single massive cannon. When it opens up on the grey Daleks, there's nothing left except little patches of smouldering ash.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: The <s>Abomination</s> Special Weapons Dalek. When the white Daleks can't gain the upper hand, they wheel out this thing. No plunger, no egg whisk, no eyestalk -- just a single massive cannon. When it opens up on the grey Daleks, there's nothing left except little patches of smouldering ash.
* [[This Cannot Be]]
* [[This Cannot Be!]]
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Ratcliffe holds that Britain "fought for [[Dirty Communists|the wrong court]]" in the last war, and aims to correct that mistake.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Ratcliffe holds that Britain "fought for [[Dirty Communists|the wrong court]]" in the last war, and aims to correct that mistake.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: The Daleks, who had been suffering from [[Villain Decay]] since [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S17 E1 Destiny of the Daleks|Destiny of the Daleks]], finally decided to kick ass and take names. However, greater badassery [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E6 Dalek|is yet to come...]]
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: The Daleks, who had been suffering from [[Villain Decay]] since [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S17 E1 Destiny of the Daleks|Destiny of the Daleks]], finally decided to kick ass and take names. However, greater badassery [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E6 Dalek|is yet to come...]]
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* [[Xanatos Gambit]] / [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: The first episode to properly show off the Seventh Doctor's manipulative side. Unforseen events do crop up, but they doesn't really seem to slow him down any.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]] / [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: The first episode to properly show off the Seventh Doctor's manipulative side. Unforseen events do crop up, but they doesn't really seem to slow him down any.
* [[The X of Y]]
* [[The X of Y]]
* [[X Ray Sparks]]: the Dalek extermination effect used in this story was so cool and memorable that it was revived almost twenty years later, despite only appearing this once.
* [[X-Ray Sparks]]: the Dalek extermination effect used in this story was so cool and memorable that it was revived almost twenty years later, despite only appearing this once.
* [[Your Other Left]]
* [[Your Other Left]]
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: The Renegade Daleks do this to Radcliffe's organisation, and are about to do it to Radcliffe and Mike when the Imperial Daleks attack.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: The Renegade Daleks do this to Radcliffe's organisation, and are about to do it to Radcliffe and Mike when the Imperial Daleks attack.
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Revision as of 16:25, 8 January 2014


"I think I might have miscalculated".
You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies.
—--The Doctor

The Doctor and Ace arrive at Coal Hill School, perhaps a month after the First Doctor and company left. It doesn't take long before they're mixed up in trouble of the Dalek kind -- two separate Dalek factions, the Renegades (Grey) and Imperials (White), respectively opposed and loyal to Davros (as seen in "Revelation of the Daleks"), wage war on each other for possession of the Hand of Omega, a Time Lord superweapon. And unfortunately for both groups, the Doctor has laid a trap for them; he just has to make the right conditions to spring it and ensure that Group Captain Gilmore and his men don't get diced in the crossfire.

Despite being aired in the show's 25th anniversary year and featuring many links to Doctor Who's very first serial, "An Unearthly Child", this is not the official 25th anniversary special. That was "Silver Nemesis", the first episode of which aired on the actual anniversary.

Tropes

 Dalek: Small human female sighted on Level 3.

Ace: Who are you calling "small?!" [[[Batter Up]]]

  1. ↑ Ace has perhaps the most Backstory of any of the Classic companions. For one, as a child her friend Manisha's flat was firebombed by skinheads, so naturally she's less than pleased by both the sign and Mike's words
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