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Despite being aired in the show's 25th anniversary year and featuring many links to ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'''s very first serial, "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S1 E1 An Unearthly Child|An Unearthly Child]]", this is ''not'' the official 25th anniversary special. That was "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S25 E3 Silver Nemesis|Silver Nemesis]]", the first episode of which aired on the actual anniversary.
Despite being aired in the show's 25th anniversary year and featuring many links to ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s very first serial, "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1 E1 An Unearthly Child|An Unearthly Child]]", this is ''not'' the official 25th anniversary special. That was "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S25 E3 Silver Nemesis|Silver Nemesis]]", the first episode of which aired on the actual anniversary.
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=== Tropes ===
=== Tropes ===
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* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Of a sort; from this story on, the Seventh Doctor begins to be presented as a darker, more brooding and manipulative character than the amiable prat-falling metaphor-mixing bumbler of the previous season.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Of a sort; from this story on, the Seventh Doctor begins to be presented as a darker, more brooding and manipulative character than the amiable prat-falling metaphor-mixing bumbler of the previous season.
* [[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.
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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 It's 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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* [[The Mole]]
* [[The Mole]]
* [[My Card]]
* [[My Card]]
* [[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|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."
* [[Off the Shelf FX]]: The Time Controller
* [[Off-the-Shelf FX]]: The Time Controller
* [[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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* [[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/Recap/S17 E1 Destiny of the Daleks|Destiny of the Daleks]], finally decided to kick ass and take names. However, greater badassery [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E6 Dalek|is yet to come...]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Davros and the last Renegade Dalek.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Davros and the last Renegade Dalek.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Finally, all the "Daleks vs. stairs" jokes are obviated by showing Daleks [[Oh Crap|levitating on screen]].
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Finally, all the "Daleks vs. stairs" jokes are obviated by showing Daleks [[Oh Crap|levitating on screen]].

Revision as of 11:24, 25 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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