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* MythologyGag: Makes some references to other parts of the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, referencing Charlotte Pollard (before "Recap/TheNightOfTheDoctor" made ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' canon) and Beep the Meep from ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine''.

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* MythologyGag: Makes some references to other parts of the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, referencing Charlotte Pollard (before "Recap/TheNightOfTheDoctor" "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]" made ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' canon) and Beep the Meep from ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine''.



* WelcomeToTheRealWorld: The Eleventh Doctor in "The Girl who loved Doctor Who".

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* WelcomeToTheRealWorld: The Eleventh Doctor in "The Girl who loved Doctor Who".Who".
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* PlotArchaeology: The 12-issue arc "[[ComicBook/DoctorWhoPrisonersOfTime Prisoners of Time]]" is a [[MilestoneCelebration 50th Anniversary celebration]] about all the Doctors against [[spoiler:Adam Mitchell, an old companion from the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Ninth]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame Doctor]], who [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome never was mentioned again in the series]] after those two episodes, returns as the BigBad, secretly managed by TheMaster.]]

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American company Creator/IDWPublishing picked up the licence for US ''Series/DoctorWho'' comics after the export success of the 21st-century revived series in 2008. They began by reprinting the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' run from the beginning as ''Doctor Who Classics'', then produced some one-shots and miniseries, and eventually launched their own separate ongoing series featuring the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors - Ten with original companions, Eleven with his TV companions. IDW's issues are officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops. Their ''Doctor Who'' licence ended at the same time as Creator/MattSmith's tenure on the show. Their releases included, but are not limited to:

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American company Creator/IDWPublishing picked up the licence license for US ''Series/DoctorWho'' comics after the export success of the 21st-century revived series in 2008. They began by reprinting the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' run from the beginning as ''Doctor Who Classics'', then produced some one-shots and miniseries, and eventually launched their own separate ongoing series featuring the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors - Ten with original companions, Eleven with his TV companions. IDW's issues are officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing licensing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops. Their ''Doctor Who'' licence license ended at the same time as Creator/MattSmith's tenure on the show. Their releases included, but are not limited to:



* CharacterOutlivesActor: Sarah Jane lives on despite Creator/ElisabethSladen's death, as confirmed in "The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who".
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Archie Maplin is a thinly disguised Creator/CharlieChaplin. Unusually, this was done for copyright reasons; Chaplin himself is a HistoricalDomainCharacter, but the Little Tramp ''isn't'', and by the time they realised this was a problem, the pages had been drawn, and all they could do was change his name, moustache and hat on the grounds that if it ''wasn't'' Chaplin, it couldn't be the Little Tramp. In an interview with ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' the writer said that if they'd realised sooner, they could have kept Chaplin and simply not have had him in costume.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Archie Maplin is a thinly barely disguised Creator/CharlieChaplin. Unusually, this was done for copyright reasons; Chaplin himself is a HistoricalDomainCharacter, but the Little Tramp ''isn't'', and by the time they realised this was a problem, the pages had been drawn, and all they could do was change his name, moustache and hat on the grounds that if it ''wasn't'' Chaplin, it couldn't be the Little Tramp. In an interview with ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' the writer said that if they'd realised sooner, they could have kept Chaplin and simply not have had him in costume.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Archie Maplin is a thinly disguised Creator/CharlieChaplin. Unusually, this was done for copyright reasons; Chaplin himself is a HistoricalDomainCharacter, but the Little Tramp ''isn't'', and by the time they realised this was a problem, the pages had been drawn, and all they could do was change his name, moustache and hat on the grounds that if it ''wasn't'' Chaplin, it couldn't be the Little Tramp. In an interview with ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' the writer said that if they'd realised sooner, they could have kept Chaplin and simply not have had him in costume.

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** ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheForgotten'': A longer story arc featuring all ten (at that point) Doctors.
** ''ComicBook/StarTrekTheNextGenerationDoctorWhoAssimilation2'' (2012): A ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' crossover miniseries, and thus also part of the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse.
** ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoPrisonersOfTime'': A special for the 50th anniversary, again featuring all Doctors up to that point. %% "Up to that point" means "up to the start of the series" -- the War Doctor and Twelfth Doctor did not yet exist.

!!Tropes that appear in the comics:
* CharacterOutlivesActor: Sarah Jane lives on despite Creator/ElisabethSladen's death, as confirmed in "The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who"

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** * ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheForgotten'': A longer story arc featuring all ten (at that point) Doctors.
** * ''ComicBook/StarTrekTheNextGenerationDoctorWhoAssimilation2'' (2012): A ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' crossover miniseries, and thus also part of the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse.
** * ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoPrisonersOfTime'': A special for the 50th anniversary, again featuring all Doctors up to that point. %% "Up to that point" means "up to the start of the series" -- the War Doctor and Twelfth Doctor did not yet exist.

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* CharacterOutlivesActor: Sarah Jane lives on despite Creator/ElisabethSladen's death, as confirmed in "The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who"Who".
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American company Creator/IDWPublishing picked up the licence for US ''Series/DoctorWho'' comics after the export success of the 21st-century revived series in 2008. They began by reprinting the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' run from the beginning as ''Doctor Who Classics'', producing their own one-shots and miniseries, and eventually launching their own separate ongoing series featuring the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors - Ten with original companions, Eleven with his TV companions. IDW's issues are officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops. Their ''Doctor Who'' licence ended at the same time as Creator/MattSmith's tenure on the show. Their releases included, but are not limited to:

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American company Creator/IDWPublishing picked up the licence for US ''Series/DoctorWho'' comics after the export success of the 21st-century revived series in 2008. They began by reprinting the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' run from the beginning as ''Doctor Who Classics'', producing their own then produced some one-shots and miniseries, and eventually launching launched their own separate ongoing series featuring the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors - Ten with original companions, Eleven with his TV companions. IDW's issues are officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops. Their ''Doctor Who'' licence ended at the same time as Creator/MattSmith's tenure on the show. Their releases included, but are not limited to:

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American company Creator/IDWPublishing picked up the licence for US ''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' comics after the export success of the 21st-century revived series in 2008. They began by reprinting the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' run from the beginning as ''Doctor Who Classics'', producing their own one-shots and miniseries, and eventually launching their own separate ongoing series featuring the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors - Ten with original companions, Eleven with his TV companions. IDW's issues are officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops. Their ''Doctor Who'' licence ended at the same time as Creator/MattSmith's tenure on the show. Their releases included, but are not limited to:

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American company Creator/IDWPublishing picked up the licence for US ''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' ''Series/DoctorWho'' comics after the export success of the 21st-century revived series in 2008. They began by reprinting the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' run from the beginning as ''Doctor Who Classics'', producing their own one-shots and miniseries, and eventually launching their own separate ongoing series featuring the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors - Ten with original companions, Eleven with his TV companions. IDW's issues are officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops. Their ''Doctor Who'' licence ended at the same time as Creator/MattSmith's tenure on the show. Their releases included, but are not limited to:



** ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoPrisonersOfTime'': A special for the 50th anniversary.

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** ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoPrisonersOfTime'': A special for the 50th anniversary.
anniversary, again featuring all Doctors up to that point. %% "Up to that point" means "up to the start of the series" -- the War Doctor and Twelfth Doctor did not yet exist.



* CanonImmigrant: Some of the Doctor's companions, Emily Winter, Matthew Finnegan and Kevin.

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* CanonImmigrant: Some of the Doctor's companions, Emily Winter, Matthew Finnegan and Kevin.CharacterOutlivesActor: Sarah Jane lives on despite Creator/ElisabethSladen's death, as confirmed in "The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who"



* MilestoneCelebration: "The Forgotten" for the 45th anniversary of Doctor Who. For the 50th anniversary of "Doctor Who" there was "Prisoners of Time", "The Girl who loved Doctor Who", and "Dead Man's Hand".
* MythologyGag: Makes some references to other parts of the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, referencing Charlotte Pollard (before Recap/TheNightOfTheDoctor made BigFinishDoctorWho canon and Beep the Meep from Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine.
* TimeyWimeyBall: This is Doctor Who, so frequently. 10 even meets a race who live their lives backwards, making them a living paradox.

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* MilestoneCelebration: "The Forgotten" for the 45th anniversary of Doctor Who. For the 50th anniversary of "Doctor Who" there was "Prisoners of Time", "The Girl who loved Doctor Who", and "Dead Man's Hand".
* MythologyGag: Makes some references to other parts of the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, referencing Charlotte Pollard (before Recap/TheNightOfTheDoctor "Recap/TheNightOfTheDoctor" made BigFinishDoctorWho canon ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' canon) and Beep the Meep from Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine.
''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine''.
* TimeyWimeyBall: This is Doctor Who, ''Doctor Who'', so frequently. 10 Ten even meets a race who live their lives backwards, making them a living paradox.



* WelcomeToTheRealWorld: 11 in "The Girl who loved Doctor Who".

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* WelcomeToTheRealWorld: 11 The Eleventh Doctor in "The Girl who loved Doctor Who".

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* CanonImmigrant: Emily Winter, Matthew Finnegan...

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\n* CanonImmigrant: Some of the Doctor's companions, Emily Winter, Matthew Finnegan...Finnegan and Kevin.


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* MilestoneCelebration: "The Forgotten" for the 45th anniversary of Doctor Who. For the 50th anniversary of "Doctor Who" there was "Prisoners of Time", "The Girl who loved Doctor Who", and "Dead Man's Hand".
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* TimeyWimeyBall: This is Doctor Who, so frequently. 10 even meets a race who live their lives backwards, making them a living paradox.

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* TimeyWimeyBall: This is Doctor Who, so frequently. 10 even meets a race who live their lives backwards, making them a living paradox.paradox.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Gizou, an alien race that makes several appearances.
* WelcomeToTheRealWorld: 11 in "The Girl who loved Doctor Who".
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* InternalHomage: Emily could be seen as this to Charlotte Pollard, the comparison is even made.
* MythologyGag: Makes some references to other parts of the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, referencing Charlotte Pollard (before TheNightOfTheDoctor made BigFinishDoctorWho canon and Beep the Meep from Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine.

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* InternalHomage: Emily could be seen as this to Charlotte Pollard, the Doctor saving a woman from death thus breaking the laws of time, the comparison is even made.
* MythologyGag: Makes some references to other parts of the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, referencing Charlotte Pollard (before TheNightOfTheDoctor Recap/TheNightOfTheDoctor made BigFinishDoctorWho canon and Beep the Meep from Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine.
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* MythologyGag: Makes some references to other parts of the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, referencing Charlotte Pollard (before recap/TheNightOfTheDoctor made BigFinishDoctorWho canon and Beep the Meep from Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine.

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* MythologyGag: Makes some references to other parts of the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, referencing Charlotte Pollard (before recap/TheNightOfTheDoctor TheNightOfTheDoctor made BigFinishDoctorWho canon and Beep the Meep from Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine.
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American company Creator/IDWPublishing picked up the licence for US ''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' comics after the export success of the 21st-century revived series in 2008. They began by reprinting the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' run from the beginning as ''Doctor Who Classics'', producing their own one-shots and miniseries, and eventually launching their own separate ongoing series featuring the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors - Ten with original companions, Eleven with his TV companions. IDW's issues are officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops. Their ''Doctor Who'' licence ended at the same time as Creator/MattSmith's tenure on the show. Their releases included, but are not limited to:
** ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheForgotten'': A longer story arc featuring all ten (at that point) Doctors.
** ''ComicBook/StarTrekTheNextGenerationDoctorWhoAssimilation2'' (2012): A ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' crossover miniseries, and thus also part of the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse.
** ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoPrisonersOfTime'': A special for the 50th anniversary.

!!Tropes that appear in the comics:

* CanonImmigrant: Emily Winter, Matthew Finnegan...
* InternalHomage: Emily could be seen as this to Charlotte Pollard, the comparison is even made.
* MythologyGag: Makes some references to other parts of the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, referencing Charlotte Pollard (before recap/TheNightOfTheDoctor made BigFinishDoctorWho canon and Beep the Meep from Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine.
* TimeyWimeyBall: This is Doctor Who, so frequently. 10 even meets a race who live their lives backwards, making them a living paradox.

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