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* TheParagon: Surprisingly enough, the [[ShellShockedVeteran Ninth Doctor]] is portrayed as this. [[spoiler:In the finale of the book, it's mentioned that he wasn't involved in Alternate Twelve and the Voord's plan because the Time War weapon they used couldn't find even ''a single'' timeline where Nine was anything except "absolutely fantastic", unlike his successors and their various nightmarish AlternateSelves the weapon could conjure up.]]
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* SadisticChoice: Ten, Eleven and Twelve get caught in the radius of a Time War weapon that rewrites the timeline of anyone caught in it, usually for the worse. However, the device wasn't meant to be used against more than one incarnation of the same Time Lord, so it goes haywire, showing the three Doctors horrible possibilities for their own futures - Ten as the Time Lord Victorious, Eleven placidly ignoring the death of the Universe as long as he can have his personal peace, and Twelve a crazy hermit stewing in Clara's "betrayal". They realize that they can short out the machine by making contact with one of their alternates and joining them, and Twelve reluctantly concedes his own future seems to be the least horrible of the bunch, so he takes everyone with him as he touches him. [[spoiler:The crazy Twelfth Doctor counted on this.]]
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* HatesBeingAlone: The alternate version of Twelve [[spoiler: has been alone for a very long time, having severed ties with Clara for an unspecified betrayal. He finally becomes so desperate for companions that he winds up falling in with the Voord.]]
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* NeverTrustATitle: The story features four doctors: Ten, Eleven, Twelve, and War... but War is only peripherally involved with the plot (accidentally [[spoiler: setting the Voord up as the bad guys]]). Of course, you might think of [[spoiler: the alternate Twelve]] as the fourth one.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Voord have always been one of the franchise's less memorable villains. This story reveals that they became a genuine threat during the Time War [[spoiler: and in fact their actions in this story are an attempt to ensure they stay that way.]]
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* StepfordSmiler: The alternate version of Eleven [[spoiler: lives in wedded bliss with River Song, willfully ignorant of time and space crumbling around him]].
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: The alternate version of Ten [[spoiler: decides that his capacity to help people justified any cost necessary to keep himself alive. After leaving Wilf to die in that radiation booth, he becomes a tyrant who embraces the title "Time Lord Victorious"]]
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* BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind: Twelve fights [[spoiler: his alternate self]] by entering the Voord Group Mind. To assist help he pulls the other Doctors and his companions in.
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* BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind: BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Twelve fights [[spoiler: his alternate self]] by entering the Voord Group Mind. To assist help he pulls the other Doctors and his companions in.
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* TheSymbiote: The effects of the Time War have evolved the Voord from basically being people in wet suits to Symbiotes from Marvel in all but name. The only difference is the lack of Shapeshifter Weapons.
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* InSpiteOfANail: Apparently, no matter the timeline, no matter the circumstances, [[spoiler: the Ninth Doctor, unlike the Doctors that followed, can only ever be himself. Or, as 10 puts it, he can only ever be ''[[HeartwarmingMoments fantastic]]'']].
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* InSpiteOfANail: Apparently, no matter the timeline, no matter the circumstances, [[spoiler: the Ninth Doctor, unlike the Doctors that followed, can only ever be himself. Or, as 10 puts it, he can only ever be ''[[HeartwarmingMoments fantastic]]'']].''fantastic'']].
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* InSpiteOfANail: Apparently, no matter the timeline, no matter the circumstances, [[spoiler: the Ninth Doctor, unlike the Doctors that followed, can only ever be himself. Or, as 10 puts it, he can only ever be ''fantastic'']].
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* InSpiteOfANail: Apparently, no matter the timeline, no matter the circumstances, [[spoiler: the Ninth Doctor, unlike the Doctors that followed, can only ever be himself. Or, as 10 puts it, he can only ever be ''fantastic'']].''[[HeartwarmingMoments fantastic]]'']].
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* NearVillainVictory: The BigBad is busy memory wiping and/or brainwashing the heroes into setting up the events that will allow their evil scheme to move forward at the end of Part Four, but thanks to what happens in the {{Cliffhanger}} of Part Five [[spoiler: the meeting of the Doctors at the cafe goes in a completely different direction, meaning the evil plot doesn't even get this far]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: In Part 5, [[spoiler: the Doctors and companions -- Clara in particular -- convince the evil alternate Twelve to give up his existence in a way that saves both the original timeline ''and'' the Voord]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: In Part 5, Five, [[spoiler: the Doctors and companions -- Clara in particular -- convince the evil alternate Twelve to give up his existence in a way that saves both the original timeline ''and'' the Voord]].
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Part 5 has [[spoiler: Gabby sent into the past by a Weeping Angel]], allowing [[spoiler: her to warn the companions about what will happen at and after the Doctors' cafe meeting]]. From here, the heroes are able to take events in a different direction.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Part 5 Five has [[spoiler: Gabby sent into the past by a Weeping Angel]], allowing [[spoiler: her to warn the companions about what will happen at and after the Doctors' cafe meeting]]. From here, the heroes are able to take events in a different direction.
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* TheUnreveal: The characters and reader do not learn [[spoiler: what Clara did to betray the Doctor -- it is ''not'' confirmed that this had anything to do with the TARDIS keys incident in "Dark Water", though this story is set before that episode's events. Nor do we ever learn what happened to Clara in that alternate timeline..]].
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* TheUnreveal: The characters and reader do not learn [[spoiler: what Clara did to betray the Doctor -- Twelfth Doctor]]. Given the televised continuity and some of [[spoiler: alternate 12]]'s dialogue, it is ''not'' confirmed that this had anything to do with most likely [[spoiler: the TARDIS keys incident in "Dark Water", though which takes place after this story story's events (alternate Twelve says "I told her to go to Hell...and she did")]], but it is set before that episode's events. not confirmed. Nor do we ever learn [[spoiler: what happened to Clara in that alternate timeline..]].timeline]].
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** Twelve describes Ten and Eleven as "Baby Doctor" and "Posh Doctor", and says that they think of him as "Scary Doctor" - a reference to the nicknames of the Music/SpiceGirls.
** One of the comedy back-up stories has the Doctors involved in versions of three famous broadcast sketches: the "class sketch" from ''The Frost Report'', Creator/AbbottAndCostello's "Who's On First", and the "dead parrot sketch" from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''.
** One of the comedy back-up stories has the Doctors involved in versions of three famous broadcast sketches: the "class sketch" from ''The Frost Report'', Creator/AbbottAndCostello's "Who's On First", and the "dead parrot sketch" from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''.
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* YouCantFightFate: Clara attempts to prevent the meeting of Doctors from happening by telling Alice and Gabby to convince their Doctors to leave Paris before they can meet. She didn't count on Twelve learning her plan, meeting Ten and Eleven outside, and them all barging in on their meeting!
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* YouCantFightFate: Clara attempts to prevent the meeting of Doctors from happening by telling Alice and Gabby to convince their Doctors to leave Paris before they can meet. She didn't count on Twelve learning her plan, meeting Ten and Eleven outside, and them all barging in on their meeting!meeting!
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* DirtyCoward: The Twelfth Doctor initially regards [[spoiler: his alternate universe self]] as this, seeing as he [[spoiler: decided not only to reject Clara after she betrayed him, but became a hermit unwilling to make emotional connections with anyone else]]. It turns out that he's [[spoiler: become something even worse since then, having joined up with the Voord]].
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* ItsAllMyFault: An unusual variant: Clara feels terribly guilty upon realizing that [[spoiler: at some point in her future, she will betray the Doctor]], and even more so when it turns out that [[spoiler: her alternate universe self doing that set that world's Twelfth Doctor on an evil path, resulting in the present crisis]]. Twelve gently comforts her over this.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The BigBad turns out to be [[spoiler: an alternate universe's Twelfth Doctor so hurt by Clara betraying him that he stopped taking on companions, and became a lonely hermit. He finally found companionship with the Voord, but then realized his timeline was never meant to be the ''true'' one; desperate to live, he decides to find a way to rewrite it]].
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** In a variation, Twelve's alternate timeline reveals that [[spoiler: Clara will betray him at some point in the ''normal'' one. She does not actually meet her future self, but she ''does'' see what her betrayal will do to the ultimately evil alternate Doctor]], and is understandably distressed by this.
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** In a variation, Twelve's one of the alternate timeline timelines reveals that [[spoiler: Clara will betray him Twelve at some point in the ''normal'' one. She does not actually meet her future self, but she ''does'' see what her betrayal will do does to the ultimately evil alternate Doctor]], and is understandably distressed by this.this. Also counts as FutureMeScaresMe.
