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** Admiral Skarrr and Troutanicus in ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', are alien parodies of ''[[Literature/MobyDick Captain Ahab and Moby-Dick]].
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* TakeThat: In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', the Pyromeths criticisms of Martha's stories are at times parodies of formulaic Hollywood storytelling structures, and at times parodies of criticisms of ''Doctor Who'' stories themselves by various fan factions.
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** In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', the Pyromeths criticisms of Martha's stories are at times parodies of formulaic Hollywood storytelling structures, and at times parodies of criticisms of ''Doctor Who'' stories themselves by various fan factions.
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* TwoScenesOneDialogue: "Once Upon a Time Lord" opens with a double-page spread, in which each panel has each of the Doctors in order (except War) until the Tenth explaining to a companion, in a continuous speech, what to do if they are captured by the Pyromeths.[[note]]The First Doctor and someone off panel, the Second Doctor and Jamie, the Third Doctor and Jo, the Fourth Doctor and Leela, the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa, the Sixth Doctor and [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine Frobisher]], the Seventh Doctor and Ace, the Eighth Doctor and [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Molly]], the Ninth Doctor and Rose, and the Tenth Doctor and Martha[[/note]]
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* TwoScenesOneDialogue: "Once ''Once Upon a Time Lord" Lord'' opens with a double-page spread, in which each panel has each of the Doctors in order (except War) until the Tenth explaining to a companion, in a continuous speech, what to do if they are captured by the Pyromeths.[[note]]The First Doctor and someone off panel, the Second Doctor and Jamie, the Third Doctor and Jo, the Fourth Doctor and Leela, the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa, the Sixth Doctor and [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine Frobisher]], the Seventh Doctor and Ace, the Eighth Doctor and [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Molly]], the Ninth Doctor and Rose, and the Tenth Doctor and Martha[[/note]]
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* AbstractEater: In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', the Pyromeths feed on stories.
* AdventureArchaeologist: In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', Dr. Rana Rashad.
* AdventureArchaeologist: In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', Dr. Rana Rashad.
** In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', the Doctor's ally in the Realm of the Dead is the werewolf from "Bad Wolf", who sees his own death as a MercyKill and is grateful to the Doctor.
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** In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', the Realm of the Dead is inhabited by representatives of every kind of alien species the Doctor has killed members of.
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* CrazyPrepared: In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', the Doctor has a prepared plan for what to do if a companion is captured by Pyromeths, which requires every single step in a lengthy chain to go off exactly as he anticipated.
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* CreepyChild: In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', the Pyromeths initially manifest as these at the fete.
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* ExactWords: The Osiran projection asks Colonel Münsterhausen if he wishes to go to the realm of the dead. When he says yes, the mummy robot holding him kills him via NeckSnap.
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** Admiral Skarrr and Troutanicus in ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', are alien parodies of ''[[Literature/MobyDick Captain Ahab and Moby-Dick]].
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* {{Homage}}: In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', Martha's first story has elements of ''Literature/MobyDick'' and her second has elements of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''.
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* PirateParrot: Parodied in ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', which has Cap'n Polly, a sapient parrot-like alien, as a stereotypical ship's captain, riding on the shoulder of a silent and apparently non-sapient humanoid robot.
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* RefugeInAudacity: In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', the Doctor's way of solving the Osirans' impossible riddle -- he claims to have written the answer on his psychic paper, so the Osiran projection reads the (unstated) correct answer.
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* ScheherezadeGambit: Enforced in ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', the Pyromeths force the people they kidnap to tell them stories to feed them, and kill them when they run out.
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** In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', the alien beverage that tastes like ginger beer is a PG-rated nod to the RunningGag in ''Literature/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' about every alien culture having a drink that phonetically sounds like "gin and tonic".
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* SwallowedWhole: In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', both the TARDIS and Admiral Skarrr's ship are swallowed by the giant fish Troutanicus.
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* TakeThat: In ''Once Upon a Time Lord'', the Pyromeths criticisms of Martha's stories are at times parodies of formulaic Hollywood storytelling structures, and at times parodies of criticisms of ''Doctor Who'' stories themselves by various fan factions.
** The Doctor and Dr. Rashad make various derogatory remarks about the British Museum, an allusion to controversies at the time the story was written about the presence of various items of imperial loot in the museum.
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* TeaserOnlyCharacter: Parodied and subverted in ''Once Upon a Time Lord'' -- Admiral Scarrr is attacked by a monster at the beginning of Martha's first story, and the Pyromeths accuse her of poor storytelling by abandoning her apparent protagonist early on. Then subverted when it turns out he's still alive.
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In 2021, Creator/DanSlott was announced to be writing a miniseries featuring the Tenth Doctor and Martha. After much ScheduleSlip, it was finally published as a short stand-alone graphic novel in 2023, with the title ''Once Upon a Time Lord''.
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* BandLand: When discussing possible travel destinations in "The Infinite Corridor", Cindy suggests they visit the "planet of the living musical instruments". The Doctor shoots the idea down, saying that he's ["[NoodleIncident Been there. Too ]]'''[[recently.]]'''"
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* BandLand: When discussing possible travel destinations in "The Infinite Corridor", Cindy suggests they visit the "planet of the living musical instruments". The Doctor shoots the idea down, saying that he's ["[NoodleIncident "[[NoodleIncident Been there. Too ]]'''[[recently.]]'''[[NoodleIncident recently.]]'''"
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The Tenth Doctor comics were one of Titan's three initial on-going series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' comics, and like the other three were published from 2014 to 2018 and divided into three "years" similar to TV seasons. They were almost entirely written by Nick Abadzis, most famous for ''ComicBook/{{Laika}}'', and the main artist was initially Elena Casagrande and later Georgia Sposito.
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The Tenth Doctor comics were one of Titan's three initial on-going series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' comics, [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan comics]], and like the other three were published from 2014 to 2018 and divided into three "years" similar to TV seasons. They were almost entirely written by Nick Abadzis, most famous for ''ComicBook/{{Laika}}'', and the main artist was initially Elena Casagrande and later Georgia Sposito.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Downplayed since the Doctor is an alien time traveller, but at one point he offers Gabby the phone given to him by Martha since he had upgraded it. Gabby dismisses it as being ancient since it's a flip phone and doubts she can even text someone with it, reflecting how the majority of the Tenth Doctor's adventures took place between [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2007 and 2010]]. The Doctor then briefly complains about this and says how his phone is used for more important things, like having an actual conversation as opposed to just texting.
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* LeftHanging: Titan ending the comic at Year Three means that [[spoiler: there is no resolution to what happens after Gabby is separated from her friends and ends up in the Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS, and the comic never gets the chance to explain what caused the Doctor to be on his own again by "The End of Time". Logically losing Gabby might have been what caused the Doctor's companions, especially Cindy, to leave and optimistically this might mean that the Twelfth Doctor was able to return Gabby to her proper time. However since no clear explanation was given that means the comic ends on a depressing DownerEnding.]]
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** [[spoiler:Sutekh's]] LegionOfDoom includes entities that resemble a God of Ragnarok from "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", the Destroyer from "Survival", the Beast from "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit", and the King Nocturne.
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** [[spoiler:Sutekh's]] LegionOfDoom includes entities that resemble a God of Ragnarok from "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", the Destroyer from "Survival", "Battlefield", the Beast from "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit", and the King Nocturne.
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** ** In "Music Man", the Doctor is outright using "[[Film/{{Ghostbuster}} Dr. Venkman]]" as an alias.
** In "The Ghost Ship", the Doctor introduces Gabby and Cindy as [[Franchise/StarWars "Artoo" and "Threepio"]].
** Gabby introduces the Doctor to Captain Fairbairn as "ComicBook/DoctorStrange".
** ** In "Music Man", the Doctor is outright using "[[Film/{{Ghostbuster}} Dr. Venkman]]" as an alias.
** In "The Ghost Ship", the Doctor introduces Gabby and Cindy as [[Franchise/StarWars "Artoo" and "Threepio"]].
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The series was officially set during the "year of specials" in the broadcast year 2009, between "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" and "The End of Time" when the Tenth Doctor had no ongoing TV companion. His initial companion in the comics was Gabby Gonzales, a young woman from contemporary New York City. Gabby's best friend Cindy Wu initially refused to join them, but became a full companion from Year Two on. Year Three saw the comic's recurring character Anubis promoted to full companion with Gabby and Cindy. The comic was not fully serialised, but saw a number of ongoing plotlines, such as Gabby's increasingly-apparent psionic powers, and Anubis's relationship with his father, [[spoiler:Fourth Doctor TV villain Sutekh]].
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The series was officially set during the "year of specials" in the broadcast year 2009, between "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" and "The End of Time" when the Tenth Doctor had no ongoing TV companion. His initial companion in the comics was Gabby Gonzales, Gonzalez, a young woman from contemporary New York City. Gabby's best friend Cindy Wu initially refused to join them, but became a full companion from Year Two on. Year Three saw the comic's recurring character Anubis promoted to full companion with Gabby and Cindy. The comic was not fully serialised, but saw a number of ongoing plotlines, such as Gabby's increasingly-apparent psionic powers, and Anubis's relationship with his father, [[spoiler:Fourth Doctor TV villain Sutekh]].
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The Tenth Doctor comics were one of Titan's three initial on-going series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' comics, and like the other three were published from 2014 to 2018 and divided into three "years" similar to TV seasons. They were almost entirely written by Nick Abadzis, most famous for ''ComicBook/{{Laika}}'', and the main artist was initially Elena Casagrande and later Georgia Sposito.
The series was officially set during the "year of specials" in the broadcast year 2009, between "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" and "The End of Time" when the Tenth Doctor had no ongoing TV companion. His initial companion in the comics was Gabby Gonzales, a young woman from contemporary New York City. Gabby's best friend Cindy Wu initially refused to join them, but became a full companion from Year Two on. Year Three saw the comic's recurring character Anubis promoted to full companion with Gabby and Cindy. The comic was not fully serialised, but saw a number of ongoing plotlines, such as Gabby's increasingly-apparent psionic powers, and Anubis's relationship with his father, [[spoiler:Fourth Doctor TV villain Sutekh]].
!!This series contains the following tropes:
* AlienAbduction: The Monaxi kidnap people from different worlds to sell into slavery.
* AmbiguousGender: The Shan'tee have no actual gender, but humans tend to assign them to them because of their preconceptions. The Shan'tee known as "Smokey" is perceived by Gabby as male and Allegra as female.
* AnimalEspionage: The birds in the Monaxi gladiator arena are robot spies.
* ArtShift: Sections of "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" are in mock-Chinese art style.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: It's revealed that all the Osirans except Anubis did this after Sutekh was imprisoned. Anubis plans to do this, but his technology is too degraded. The Osiran cultists were under the impression that he would take them with him, and are not happy when he has no intention of doing so.
* AuctionOfEvil: The "Ebonite Rooms" in "The Fountains of Forever" are an underground auction room for alien artefacts.
* BadBoss: The Minaxi leader Iktra treats his subordinate Vozmorth very abusively and finally tries to shoot the Doctor even though the shot will also kill him.
* BittersweetEnding: "Music Man". Clearly more bitter than sweet, as the Doctor and Gabby end up defeating the Nocturne, but it was only achieved by the [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice of the musician Roscoe]], [[BigBrotherInstinct in an attempt to save his sister's life]]. When Gabby is forced to tell Cindy this (as Cindy was in a relationship with him and wasn't there at the time), Cindy immediately puts two and two together. The last shot of the story is Gabby and Roscoe's sister trying and failing to comfort a crying Cindy, all while the Doctor stands forlornly, staring at Roscoe's corpse [[RuleOfSymbolism and his broken trumpet]].
-->'''Gabby [=POV=] captions:''' Now I understand why he doesn't ever really explain. Sometimes, you just can't find the words.
* BlackBugRoom: The Paranestene consigns the Doctor, Gabby, Cindy, and Noobis to one in "Breakfast At Tyranny's".
* BottomlessPit: Zhe's "apprentice" turns a stairwell into a Bottomless Pit to trap the Doctor.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Mr. Ebonite brainwashes various characters, [[spoiler:including Gabby]], to force them to fight each other in "Arena of Fear".
* BrownNote: The Nocturnes in "The Singer Not the Song" are [[OhCrap sentient Brown Notes]] capable of [[ViralTransformation transforming other beings]] into themselves.
* TheBusCameBack: A Nocturne returns as the antagonist in "The Jazz Monster" and "Music Man", after a whole fleet of them were also antagonists in the opening ''Year Two'' story, "The Singer Not the Song".
* CallBack:
** The Doctor says that Zhe trained in block-transfer computation on [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis}} Logopolis]], and later says that he only encountered autonomously sentient block-transfer constructs [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva once before]].
** When Gabby is empowered by the "apprentice", she briefly comes into telepathic contact with the Ood collective.
** Ten is briefly transformed back into the Ninth Doctor by a time anomaly in "The Fountains of Forever".
** In "The Fountains of Forever", the Doctor says this when Vivian asks the Doctor to bring Dorothy Bell back to life:
-->'''The Doctor:''' I '''can't.''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld Everything has it's time...]]
** In "Sins of the Father", the Time Sentinel and its servitors appear to be the same kind of being as Shayde from the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comics continuity. The Sentinel later refers to an "Aspect Black" having been corrupted after spending time as a "lone operator", confirming this.
** [[spoiler:Sutekh's]] LegionOfDoom includes entities that resemble a God of Ragnarok from "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", the Destroyer from "Survival", the Beast from "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit", and the King Nocturne.
** In "Revolving Doors" the Tenth Doctor's sad memories of all three companions he picked up in London are recalled and used as weapons against him.
** The same story begins with an activation of the TARDIS's randomiser from Season Seventeen.
* CallForward:
** When Zhe's "apprentice" accuses him of being a critic, Ten says that critics wear bow ties, and then muses that bow ties aren't a bad look.
** A somewhat grim one when the Doctor tells Vivian that he can't prevent Dorothy from dying:
--> '''Vivian''': Don't give me that. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime You think that, when your time comes, you'll want to go?]]
** "The Singer Not the Song" contains multiple references to the ArcWords "No song lasts forever" from Ten's final stories.
** In "The Good Companion", the Time Sentinel turns out to be worried that [[spoiler:the Doctor will break the lock on the Time War]].
** Gabby has visions of Clara and Bill among the Doctor's other companions.
* ChekhovsGift: At the end of "The Singer Not the Song", a Carbonadium Box (a music box that changes its tune depending on the listener's mood) is given to Gabby as a gift from visiting Wupatki. This device proves important for two occasions, with the first one being when the Doctor uses it to pull a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight for [[spoiler:Gabby (as she is under the control of Mr. Ebonite)]] in "Arena of Fear" and the second consisting of Gabby activating it with a trumpet in order to weaken the Nocturne in "Music Man".
* ClonesArePeopleToo: The Paranestene's clones of Cindy achieve individuality and pull a HeelFaceTurn.
* TheCoatsAreOff: In "The Singer Not the Song", Ten takes his overcoat off as soon as he discovered that there's actual trouble on Wupatki.
* ContinuityCavalcade: Gabby's drawings of the people they meet on Ouloumos include the Giant Robot, a Quark, an Ice Warrior, and an Alpha Centaurian.
* ContinuityNod:
** The Doctor mentions [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs}} Cameca]] when he and Gabby discuss the Aztecs' magical use of mirrors.
** American newscaster Trinity Wells, who regularly appeared in Davies-era TV stories, appears on TV to describe events in the contemporary-Earth stories.
** In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Doctor talks about [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E5Timelash meeting H G Wells]].
** In "The Fountains of Forever", the alien hairdryer from "Dalek" is being sold at the Ebonite Rooms, [[RunningGag still mistaken for a weapon]].
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Lots of money for Van Statten's old hairdryer.]]
** "The Fountains of Forever" includes a mention of Department C4, a malevolent British government black ops organisation from various AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho dramas.
** In the "Laundro-Room of Doom" short, various past Doctor and companion costumes can be seen in the TARDIS wardrobe room.
** In "The Singer Not the Song", Ten was trying to take Gabby to [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Eye of Orion]].
** In "Cindy, Cleo, and the Magic Sketchbook", Gabby finds Turlough's old sketchbooks in the TARDIS.
** Gabby's psychic textbook warns Gabby of a coming evil analogous to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet The Beast]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield the Destroyer]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay the Vampires]].
** In "Medicine Man", the Doctor talks about manipulation of humanity's history by the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath Jaggeroth]], the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E3ImageOfTheFendahl Fendahl]], and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Osirans]].
** Sunzberro in "Medicine Man" is a Terileptil, although nicer than the ones the Fifth Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation met in seventeenth-century Heathrow]].
** The Monaxi are said to have supplied gladiators to the early Time Lords for the [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors Game of Rassilon]].
** "The Wishing Well Witch" contains a reference to Stockbridge, the English village which is the scene of alien events in various ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip stories.
** In "Old Girl", the Doctor alludes to the cat nuns from "New Earth".
** In "Breakfast at Tyranny's", the Paranestene briefly torments the Doctor by making him hallucinate himself as an Auton, with the sonic screwdriver as his ArmCannon.
** The TARDIS showroom in the Doctor's hallucination in "Breakfast at Tyranny's" includes the white classical column form assumed by the Master's TARDIS in "Logopolis" and "Castrovalva".
** The wasted Nestene duplicates of the Doctor look like his previous regenerations.
** In "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", the Doctor says that he once lived in China for a time without access to the TARDIS, which may be a reference to "Marco Polo".
** In "Vortex Butterflies", Gabby refers to Turlough, Izzy, Fitz, Liv, Rose, and Donna.
** The Twelfth Doctor says that Ten [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent really doesn't want to know]] how old he is.
** Sarah alludes to Davros accusing the Doctor of turning his companions into weapons in "Journeys' End".
** Sarah refers to an evil android duplicate being created from her in "The Android Invasion".
** In "The Good Companion", Zhe offers to get Gabby [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E2Snakedance Manussan Salted Snakebite Strudel]].
** Cleo refers to the Doctor as [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio Doctor Mysterio]].
* CreepyChangingPainting: Gabby's sketchbook changes to give Cindy messages, by implication because its pages are psychic paper.
* CultureJustifiesAnything: In "Echo", the Shreekers falsely claim that hunting the Echoes is an ancient cultural tradition.
* DarkActionGirl: Cleo, the very pragmatic and not very faith-driven Osiran cultist from "The Fountains of Forever".
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:Aspect Blue recognises that the rest of the Time Sentinel is becoming corrupted and helps the Doctor and friends.]]
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In "Music Man", walk-on people in the club are visibly horrified and disgusted to see that the Chinese-American Cindy and the black Roscoe are in a relationship.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Angels start attacking soldiers during World War One because extra disappearances won't be noticed, only to end up with malnutrition because most of their prey had only weeks, days, or minutes to live.
* DownerEnding: "The Good Companion", the Year 3 finale. [[spoiler:The Doctor uses the TARDIS to successfully stop the Time Sentinel's plan to regulate time, but at a severe price: Gabby doesn't get to the TARDIS in time, and ends up in the Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS. Since that Doctor realizes that it is Gabby, this means that she can never go back to the Tenth Doctor, or possibly any of her friends and family (if Ten told them about her fate). And Cindy will end up emotionally scarred over losing the girl who only recognized her feelings at the last moment]].
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:The Para-Nestene's Red TARDIS is recruited as a servant by the Time Sentinel, but ends up corrupting and possessing it.]]
* EducationMama: Gabby's father acts like this to her, although it's only education that will be useful for his businesses.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Used by the Doctor, Gabby, and Noobis, and Master Wu Wei and his followers, in "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" to defeat the Paranestene's elemental monsters.
* EmotionEater:
** "Revolutions of Terror" features the good Pranavores and evil Cerebravores.
** The Reach tries to use the Doctor's angst over his past Davies-era companions to escape into the main universe.
* TheEndOrIsIt:
** "The Weeping Angels of Mons" ends with an elderly Jamie visiting a war cemetery. As he and his family leave, his granddaughter, Gabriella, ends up tripping. She tells her family that she must have "tripped over a stupid stone or something", not knowing that she has actually tripped over a Weeping Angel's hand, sticking out of the grass...
** The end of "Sins of the Father" hints that Anubis may be slipping into his father's more evil ways.
-->''"Horus and Sukteh. Am I more the one, or the other? Is the weight of my heart too light, or too heavy? Am I worthy to enter 'The Afterlife'? And if not -'' '''''why not?''''' ''What did Horus see that I cannot? I have an inkling now of how Sukteh felt. For him, the universe was a prison - the emptiness of the sky was no illusion...'' '''''but a temptation. A philosophy. An aspiration to correct the imbalance of nature. Perhaps I am mistaken. Perhaps the sky is not filled with light. Perhaps there is, after all, a purity in darkness.'''''''"''
* EnemyWithout: Zhe's "apprentices".
* EnergyBeing:
** The Shan'Tee are living musical tunes.
** The Monaxi are part energy and part corporeal.
* EvilKnockoff: The Paranestene creates an evil copy of the TARDIS and multiple clones of Cindy, and assumes the Doctor's form in their climactic confrontation.
* {{Expy}}:
** Father Monaghan in "The Weeping Angels of Mons", with his wartime conflicts of faith, has a lot of similarity to the Reverend Wainwright in "The Curse of Fenric".
** The Time Sentinel's "aspects" have quite a bit in common with the Auditors of Reality in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series.
* FastballSpecial: Used by Noobis and Gabby in "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" to get Gabby into the Paranestene's fortress.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: In the ColdOpen of "The Weeping Angels of Mons", Harry shows off a photo of his fiance shortly before being caught by an Angel.
* FloatingContinent: Wupatki's "bridgeweb", a series of cities floating in the atmosphere of a gas planet.
* FlyingSaucer: The Monaxi spacecraft look like this, copying the upper sections of their jellyfish-like bodies.
* ForeShadowing: The constant references of butterflies, which hint at [[spoiler:Gabby's block transfer powers that she gains in "Arena of Fear" due to her being possessed by Mr. Ebonite]]:
** In "The Arts In Space", when one of Zhe's assistants transfers some of his power into Gabby, she sees black butterflies as well as events from the previous story, "Revolutions of Terror".
** In "Spiral Staircase", Dorothy Bell tells Gabby this:
-->''"Look at you, all those possibilities and glowing things clustered around you! Thoughts like so many '''butterflies...'''"''
* FusionDance: Dorothy Bell merges with the Key, a reality-warping Osiran AI device.
* FutureMeScaresMe: The entity in "Vortex Butterflies" is [[spoiler:a potential version of Gabby, empowered by her interactions with Zhe and the Osirans, and abandoned by the Doctor when she got powerful enough to scare him]].
* GirlOfTheWeek: Gabby develops a romantic attraction to Jamie, the soldier who survives "The Weeping Angels of Mons".
* GladiatorGames: The Monaxi force their captives into these.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The Cerebravores were created by an alien culture as a weapon against their enemies, but they got loose and destroyed all life on the planet.
* HalloweenEpisode: The story where the Doctor meets Gabby has a gang of evil Emotion Eaters attacking New York during the Dia de los Muertos.
* HeroicBSOD: How well does the Doctor and Cindy react to seeing Anubis and revealing that he is the son of Sukteh? Cindy ends up fainting, and '''the Doctor has fallen to his knees''', trying to comprehend this impossible fact. There is even a closeup of the Doctor's eye, to further hit the point home.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Both Captain Fairbairn and Father Monaghan in "The Weeping Angels of Mons".
** Dorothy sacrifices her own life to send [[spoiler:Sutekh]] back into limbo.
** Crossland breaks out of the Reach's influence and sacrifices himself to save the world in "Revolving Doors".
* HomoeroticSubtext: There's a strong innuendo that Dorothy Bell and Vivian are more than just friends.
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:Noobis's girlfriend Siffhoni is actually a Time Sentinel manipulating him]].
* HowWeGotHere: "The Singer Not The Song" begins with Gabby in danger of death as the research centre collapses.
-->'''Gabby:''' Oh, Doctor... this time you're gonna be too late. It was so... so--
* HumanResources: The Paranestene created the Cindy clones from all the people who previously lived in the Valley of the Tiger.
* HumanSubspecies: Both Neanderthals and early ''Homo sapiens sapiens'' appear in "Medicine Man".
* IKnowWhatYouFear: The Cerebravores' main attack.
* InevitableMutualBetrayal: [[spoiler:Sutekh]] views his allies merely as tools and kills most of them for lulz.
* JustTrainWrong: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Angels send two soldiers back in time to a train near Dundee, just before it is destroyed with no survivors in the real [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Bridge_disaster Tay Bridge Disaster]]. The train interior is drawn correctly as a compartment carriage, but the corridor is much too wide. Externally, both the carriages and the locomotive look very, very American.
* KickTheDog: An Angel sends Wullie and Joe back to nineteenth-century Scotland just in time for them to die in the Tay Bridge railway accident.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Inflicted by Mr. Ebonite on all the various people in his arena.
* MadArtist: Zhe is simply neurotic rather than truly "mad", but it still means that her attempts to create sentient life by block-transfer computation go very wrong.
* MindRape: Suffered by the victims of the entity in "The Wishing Well Witch", which "consumes" parts of their mind leaving them insane in different ways.
* MyOwnGrampa: "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" implies that Cindy is descended from one of the clones that the Paranestene created of her in ancient China.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: Averted, it turns out that the Osirans took precautions to clean up after themselves when they ascended.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Angels turn out to have sent Shuggy back only about fifty years and a few miles. Leading to him [[TheCavalry turning up to rescue everyone else]] in a stolen German tank.
* NoodleIncident: The Doctor apparently helped the ancient Osirans defeat various enemies, including the Racnoss.
* NowOrNeverKiss: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", Gabby and Jamie kiss while, they think, blowing themselves and all the Angels to pieces with a stock of explosives. Only for the Doctor to materialise the TARDIS around them as the explosion goes off.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Sutekh tries to kill his own son, inevitably.]]
* OneSteveLimit: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Doctor and Gabby team up with a Scottish soldier called Jamie. The similarity is alluded to.
* PocketDimension: Cindy is briefly trapped in one due to a TARDIS system failure in "The Infinite Corridor".
* PocketProtector: [[spoiler:Jack Harkness]] gave Erik a portable force field that protected him from Mr. Ebonite's weapon.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Happens to the psychic in "The Wishing Well Witch" when she sees [[spoiler:the return of Sutekh]] in Cindy's future.
* ThePowerOfRock[=/=]PsychicStatic: The best defence against the Cerebravores is your favourite song.
* PuppeteerParasite: The Nocturnes possess various musicians in "Music Man".
* RaceLift: A flashback reveals that the incarnation of Borusa who was the Doctor's tutor was black in human terms.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: The Osiran cultists are not happy to discover that their gods were SufficientlyAdvancedAliens and that the only one who is still present has no interest in rewarding them.
* RayOfHopeEnding: Year 3. By the end, [[spoiler:the Time Sentinels have been stopped, but Gabby ends up being separated from the Tenth Doctor, Cindy, Cleo and Anubis. After some shenanigans involving the Moment, she is transported back into the TARDIS... notably, '''[[UnexpectedCharacter the Twelfth Doctor's]]''']].
* RealityWarper: Zhe and her "apprentices", via block-transfer computation.
* RebusBubble: Briefly used in "Breakfast at Tyranny's" when Noobis breaks through the illusion to communicate with Cindy.
* ReligionOfEvil: Subverted - it turns out that although Namin was genuinely evil, most of the members of his religion were actually trying to keep Sutekh entrapped.
* SacrificialLion: When Erik tries to mortally harm Anubis out of anger at his faith being destroyed, Anubis's Seeker shoots his beam at Hanif, Erik's close friend who did literally nothing wrong in the previous two stories, as penance for Erik's actions.
* SealedEvilInACan:
** It turns out that [[spoiler:Sutekh]] escaped his apparent death by fleeing into the void.
** The Reach is an alien criminal sealed in a pocket universe.
* SelfDuplication: The Shan'tee are capable of this in emergency.
* SequelEpisode: The end of "Spiral Staircase" is revealed to be a direct sequel to the Fourth Doctor TV story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars "Pyramids of Mars"]].
* ShoutOut:
** The Doctor compares the Cerebravores to [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} Zuul and himself to Peter Venkman]].
** In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Doctor recovers consciousness in a military field hospital and launches into a chorus of Edwin Starr's "War".
** Gabby introduces the Doctor to Captain Fairbairn as "ComicBook/DoctorStrange".
** In "Echoes", the Doctor claims to have been present at the time of the events of ''Film/KingKong''.
** In "The Fountains of Forever", FAB I from ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' can be seen parked outside the Ebonite Rooms.
** Cindy confuses the Cerebravores with Cerebro from ''ComicBook/XMen''.
** The Key that Dorothy merged with is also referred to as the "Hand of Sutekh" - a joking reference to a famous blooper in "Pyramids of Mars" when part of a member of the studio crew strayed into shot.
** "Dogface", Dorothy's affectionate nickname for Anubis, refers to {{Dogfaces}}, a type of anthropomorphic character common in US comics and animation.
** In "The Singer Not the Song", a research facility promoting communication between humans and sentient music is called the [[Music/ElvisPresley Presley]] Foundation, and one of the living tunes is nicknamed "Smokey" by humans, probably a reference to the great Motown singer and songwriter Smokey Robinson.
** When confronting the mother Nocturne, the Doctor breaks into the music hall song "My Old Man's A Dustman".
** In "Music Man", the Doctor is outright using "Dr. Venkman" as an alias.
** "Music Man" contains a passing reference to a bandleader called "Morton" - presumably Jelly Roll Morton.
** In "Music Man", the Chicago studio is called "Kayoh", which is a reference to the (later) music label Okeh.
** In "Sins of the Father", Cindy makes a string of ''Franchise/StarWars'' jokes to cover up her fear of Anubis.
** In "Revolving Doors", the Doctor alludes to "Break on Through to the Other Side" by Music/TheDoors.
** In "The Good Companion", there is an exchange taken verbatim from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', when [[spoiler:Gabby ends up being unable to get to the TARDIS safely]].
-->'''Cindy:''' [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove I love you!]]\\
'''Gabby:''' I know.
** Cindy's names for her clones include characters from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', ''Franchise/TheMuppets'', and Music/TheRamones.
** The Doctor names the Xerobian machine Marcie because it [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} looks like a peanut and calls him sir]].
** In "The Ghost Ship", the Doctor introduces Gabby and Cindy as [[Franchise/StarWars "Artoo" and "Threepio"]].
* TheSiege: "The Weeping Angels of Mons" is a classic Base Under Siege story with a World War One British field hospital being attacked by Weeping Angels.
* SinisterSubway: The Doctor and Gabby are attacked by a Cerebravore while travelling on a subway train.
* SoleSurvivor: In "The Ghost Ship", Captain Kelly is the only one of the ship crew to survive.
* SoundOnlyDeath: The guy who jumps off the subway train to escape the Cerebravore and lands on the third rail in "Revolutions of Terror".
* SwirlyEnergyThingy: The Circle of Transcendence appears as this when the Time Sentinel uses it to threaten Aramuko to blackmail the Doctor.
* TakeThatCritics: The Tenth Doctor story in ''The Many Lives of Doctor Who'' has the Doctor encountering [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Garrett_Anderson Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]] and helping her in her struggle against medical sexism, and is titled "Nurse Who?". In the real world "Nurse Who" was a sexist insult used by fandom misogynists to refer to the Thirteenth Doctor.
* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: Captain Fairbairn taking on a horde of Weeping Angels.
-->''[[FamousLastWords "I'm Captain Douglas Fairbairn of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. My father fought the Zulu at Rorke's Drift, my great-grandfather marched with Wellington against Napoleon, and today I'm here to fight YOU!"]]''
* TorturedMonster: The titular being in "The Wishing Well Witch", which is [[spoiler:a gestalt of seven children from ancient Gallifrey who for unknown reasons were thrown alive into the Untempered Schism]].
* TranslatorMicrobes: Subverted in "Medicine Man", when the TARDIS has problems making some things said by the Doctor and Gabby comprehensible to Munmeth because his Stone Age culture hasn't developed those concepts or anything analogous to them yet.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Alluded to by the Doctor when he goes to rescue Gabby in "Revolving Doors".
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Zhe's block-transfer "apprentices" end up manifesting her neuroses and attack her.
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:Sutekh]] rescues Cindy from the King Nocturne, but only because he wants to kill her himself.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Gabby's father to her. He finally respects her when she saves New York from the Cerebravores.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the fate of the wounded soldiers and nurses after the Angels attack is not shown, although it was probably unpleasant.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: The setting of "The Weeping Angels of Mons".
* WhamShot:
** At the end of the first part of "The Fountains of Forever", the Doctor is shot by a time reversing gun. In the process, he regenerates '''backwards... into his previous incantation.'''
** The reveal of Anubis in "Spiral Staircase".
** "Old Girl: Primeval" contains the return of [[spoiler:[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Sutekh]]]].
* TheWormThatWalks: Mr. Ebonite turns out to be made of a multitude of duplicates of himself.
* YouAreNumberSix: The Paranestene assigns numbers instead of names to the Cindy clones to stop them developing individuality. It doesn't work.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In "The Ghost Ship", [=EarthCorp=] is using its more expendable employees as fodder for a weapons experiment.
* YouShallNotPass: Gabby blocks the Cerebravores from following the Doctor back to their homeworld through the portal.
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The series was officially set during the "year of specials" in the broadcast year 2009, between "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" and "The End of Time" when the Tenth Doctor had no ongoing TV companion. His initial companion in the comics was Gabby Gonzales, a young woman from contemporary New York City. Gabby's best friend Cindy Wu initially refused to join them, but became a full companion from Year Two on. Year Three saw the comic's recurring character Anubis promoted to full companion with Gabby and Cindy. The comic was not fully serialised, but saw a number of ongoing plotlines, such as Gabby's increasingly-apparent psionic powers, and Anubis's relationship with his father, [[spoiler:Fourth Doctor TV villain Sutekh]].
!!This series contains the following tropes:
* AlienAbduction: The Monaxi kidnap people from different worlds to sell into slavery.
* AmbiguousGender: The Shan'tee have no actual gender, but humans tend to assign them to them because of their preconceptions. The Shan'tee known as "Smokey" is perceived by Gabby as male and Allegra as female.
* AnimalEspionage: The birds in the Monaxi gladiator arena are robot spies.
* ArtShift: Sections of "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" are in mock-Chinese art style.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: It's revealed that all the Osirans except Anubis did this after Sutekh was imprisoned. Anubis plans to do this, but his technology is too degraded. The Osiran cultists were under the impression that he would take them with him, and are not happy when he has no intention of doing so.
* AuctionOfEvil: The "Ebonite Rooms" in "The Fountains of Forever" are an underground auction room for alien artefacts.
* BadBoss: The Minaxi leader Iktra treats his subordinate Vozmorth very abusively and finally tries to shoot the Doctor even though the shot will also kill him.
* BittersweetEnding: "Music Man". Clearly more bitter than sweet, as the Doctor and Gabby end up defeating the Nocturne, but it was only achieved by the [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice of the musician Roscoe]], [[BigBrotherInstinct in an attempt to save his sister's life]]. When Gabby is forced to tell Cindy this (as Cindy was in a relationship with him and wasn't there at the time), Cindy immediately puts two and two together. The last shot of the story is Gabby and Roscoe's sister trying and failing to comfort a crying Cindy, all while the Doctor stands forlornly, staring at Roscoe's corpse [[RuleOfSymbolism and his broken trumpet]].
-->'''Gabby [=POV=] captions:''' Now I understand why he doesn't ever really explain. Sometimes, you just can't find the words.
* BlackBugRoom: The Paranestene consigns the Doctor, Gabby, Cindy, and Noobis to one in "Breakfast At Tyranny's".
* BottomlessPit: Zhe's "apprentice" turns a stairwell into a Bottomless Pit to trap the Doctor.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Mr. Ebonite brainwashes various characters, [[spoiler:including Gabby]], to force them to fight each other in "Arena of Fear".
* BrownNote: The Nocturnes in "The Singer Not the Song" are [[OhCrap sentient Brown Notes]] capable of [[ViralTransformation transforming other beings]] into themselves.
* TheBusCameBack: A Nocturne returns as the antagonist in "The Jazz Monster" and "Music Man", after a whole fleet of them were also antagonists in the opening ''Year Two'' story, "The Singer Not the Song".
* CallBack:
** The Doctor says that Zhe trained in block-transfer computation on [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis}} Logopolis]], and later says that he only encountered autonomously sentient block-transfer constructs [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva once before]].
** When Gabby is empowered by the "apprentice", she briefly comes into telepathic contact with the Ood collective.
** Ten is briefly transformed back into the Ninth Doctor by a time anomaly in "The Fountains of Forever".
** In "The Fountains of Forever", the Doctor says this when Vivian asks the Doctor to bring Dorothy Bell back to life:
-->'''The Doctor:''' I '''can't.''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld Everything has it's time...]]
** In "Sins of the Father", the Time Sentinel and its servitors appear to be the same kind of being as Shayde from the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comics continuity. The Sentinel later refers to an "Aspect Black" having been corrupted after spending time as a "lone operator", confirming this.
** [[spoiler:Sutekh's]] LegionOfDoom includes entities that resemble a God of Ragnarok from "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", the Destroyer from "Survival", the Beast from "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit", and the King Nocturne.
** In "Revolving Doors" the Tenth Doctor's sad memories of all three companions he picked up in London are recalled and used as weapons against him.
** The same story begins with an activation of the TARDIS's randomiser from Season Seventeen.
* CallForward:
** When Zhe's "apprentice" accuses him of being a critic, Ten says that critics wear bow ties, and then muses that bow ties aren't a bad look.
** A somewhat grim one when the Doctor tells Vivian that he can't prevent Dorothy from dying:
--> '''Vivian''': Don't give me that. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime You think that, when your time comes, you'll want to go?]]
** "The Singer Not the Song" contains multiple references to the ArcWords "No song lasts forever" from Ten's final stories.
** In "The Good Companion", the Time Sentinel turns out to be worried that [[spoiler:the Doctor will break the lock on the Time War]].
** Gabby has visions of Clara and Bill among the Doctor's other companions.
* ChekhovsGift: At the end of "The Singer Not the Song", a Carbonadium Box (a music box that changes its tune depending on the listener's mood) is given to Gabby as a gift from visiting Wupatki. This device proves important for two occasions, with the first one being when the Doctor uses it to pull a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight for [[spoiler:Gabby (as she is under the control of Mr. Ebonite)]] in "Arena of Fear" and the second consisting of Gabby activating it with a trumpet in order to weaken the Nocturne in "Music Man".
* ClonesArePeopleToo: The Paranestene's clones of Cindy achieve individuality and pull a HeelFaceTurn.
* TheCoatsAreOff: In "The Singer Not the Song", Ten takes his overcoat off as soon as he discovered that there's actual trouble on Wupatki.
* ContinuityCavalcade: Gabby's drawings of the people they meet on Ouloumos include the Giant Robot, a Quark, an Ice Warrior, and an Alpha Centaurian.
* ContinuityNod:
** The Doctor mentions [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs}} Cameca]] when he and Gabby discuss the Aztecs' magical use of mirrors.
** American newscaster Trinity Wells, who regularly appeared in Davies-era TV stories, appears on TV to describe events in the contemporary-Earth stories.
** In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Doctor talks about [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E5Timelash meeting H G Wells]].
** In "The Fountains of Forever", the alien hairdryer from "Dalek" is being sold at the Ebonite Rooms, [[RunningGag still mistaken for a weapon]].
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Lots of money for Van Statten's old hairdryer.]]
** "The Fountains of Forever" includes a mention of Department C4, a malevolent British government black ops organisation from various AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho dramas.
** In the "Laundro-Room of Doom" short, various past Doctor and companion costumes can be seen in the TARDIS wardrobe room.
** In "The Singer Not the Song", Ten was trying to take Gabby to [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Eye of Orion]].
** In "Cindy, Cleo, and the Magic Sketchbook", Gabby finds Turlough's old sketchbooks in the TARDIS.
** Gabby's psychic textbook warns Gabby of a coming evil analogous to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet The Beast]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield the Destroyer]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay the Vampires]].
** In "Medicine Man", the Doctor talks about manipulation of humanity's history by the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath Jaggeroth]], the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E3ImageOfTheFendahl Fendahl]], and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Osirans]].
** Sunzberro in "Medicine Man" is a Terileptil, although nicer than the ones the Fifth Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation met in seventeenth-century Heathrow]].
** The Monaxi are said to have supplied gladiators to the early Time Lords for the [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors Game of Rassilon]].
** "The Wishing Well Witch" contains a reference to Stockbridge, the English village which is the scene of alien events in various ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip stories.
** In "Old Girl", the Doctor alludes to the cat nuns from "New Earth".
** In "Breakfast at Tyranny's", the Paranestene briefly torments the Doctor by making him hallucinate himself as an Auton, with the sonic screwdriver as his ArmCannon.
** The TARDIS showroom in the Doctor's hallucination in "Breakfast at Tyranny's" includes the white classical column form assumed by the Master's TARDIS in "Logopolis" and "Castrovalva".
** The wasted Nestene duplicates of the Doctor look like his previous regenerations.
** In "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", the Doctor says that he once lived in China for a time without access to the TARDIS, which may be a reference to "Marco Polo".
** In "Vortex Butterflies", Gabby refers to Turlough, Izzy, Fitz, Liv, Rose, and Donna.
** The Twelfth Doctor says that Ten [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent really doesn't want to know]] how old he is.
** Sarah alludes to Davros accusing the Doctor of turning his companions into weapons in "Journeys' End".
** Sarah refers to an evil android duplicate being created from her in "The Android Invasion".
** In "The Good Companion", Zhe offers to get Gabby [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E2Snakedance Manussan Salted Snakebite Strudel]].
** Cleo refers to the Doctor as [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio Doctor Mysterio]].
* CreepyChangingPainting: Gabby's sketchbook changes to give Cindy messages, by implication because its pages are psychic paper.
* CultureJustifiesAnything: In "Echo", the Shreekers falsely claim that hunting the Echoes is an ancient cultural tradition.
* DarkActionGirl: Cleo, the very pragmatic and not very faith-driven Osiran cultist from "The Fountains of Forever".
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:Aspect Blue recognises that the rest of the Time Sentinel is becoming corrupted and helps the Doctor and friends.]]
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In "Music Man", walk-on people in the club are visibly horrified and disgusted to see that the Chinese-American Cindy and the black Roscoe are in a relationship.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Angels start attacking soldiers during World War One because extra disappearances won't be noticed, only to end up with malnutrition because most of their prey had only weeks, days, or minutes to live.
* DownerEnding: "The Good Companion", the Year 3 finale. [[spoiler:The Doctor uses the TARDIS to successfully stop the Time Sentinel's plan to regulate time, but at a severe price: Gabby doesn't get to the TARDIS in time, and ends up in the Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS. Since that Doctor realizes that it is Gabby, this means that she can never go back to the Tenth Doctor, or possibly any of her friends and family (if Ten told them about her fate). And Cindy will end up emotionally scarred over losing the girl who only recognized her feelings at the last moment]].
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:The Para-Nestene's Red TARDIS is recruited as a servant by the Time Sentinel, but ends up corrupting and possessing it.]]
* EducationMama: Gabby's father acts like this to her, although it's only education that will be useful for his businesses.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Used by the Doctor, Gabby, and Noobis, and Master Wu Wei and his followers, in "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" to defeat the Paranestene's elemental monsters.
* EmotionEater:
** "Revolutions of Terror" features the good Pranavores and evil Cerebravores.
** The Reach tries to use the Doctor's angst over his past Davies-era companions to escape into the main universe.
* TheEndOrIsIt:
** "The Weeping Angels of Mons" ends with an elderly Jamie visiting a war cemetery. As he and his family leave, his granddaughter, Gabriella, ends up tripping. She tells her family that she must have "tripped over a stupid stone or something", not knowing that she has actually tripped over a Weeping Angel's hand, sticking out of the grass...
** The end of "Sins of the Father" hints that Anubis may be slipping into his father's more evil ways.
-->''"Horus and Sukteh. Am I more the one, or the other? Is the weight of my heart too light, or too heavy? Am I worthy to enter 'The Afterlife'? And if not -'' '''''why not?''''' ''What did Horus see that I cannot? I have an inkling now of how Sukteh felt. For him, the universe was a prison - the emptiness of the sky was no illusion...'' '''''but a temptation. A philosophy. An aspiration to correct the imbalance of nature. Perhaps I am mistaken. Perhaps the sky is not filled with light. Perhaps there is, after all, a purity in darkness.'''''''"''
* EnemyWithout: Zhe's "apprentices".
* EnergyBeing:
** The Shan'Tee are living musical tunes.
** The Monaxi are part energy and part corporeal.
* EvilKnockoff: The Paranestene creates an evil copy of the TARDIS and multiple clones of Cindy, and assumes the Doctor's form in their climactic confrontation.
* {{Expy}}:
** Father Monaghan in "The Weeping Angels of Mons", with his wartime conflicts of faith, has a lot of similarity to the Reverend Wainwright in "The Curse of Fenric".
** The Time Sentinel's "aspects" have quite a bit in common with the Auditors of Reality in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series.
* FastballSpecial: Used by Noobis and Gabby in "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" to get Gabby into the Paranestene's fortress.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: In the ColdOpen of "The Weeping Angels of Mons", Harry shows off a photo of his fiance shortly before being caught by an Angel.
* FloatingContinent: Wupatki's "bridgeweb", a series of cities floating in the atmosphere of a gas planet.
* FlyingSaucer: The Monaxi spacecraft look like this, copying the upper sections of their jellyfish-like bodies.
* ForeShadowing: The constant references of butterflies, which hint at [[spoiler:Gabby's block transfer powers that she gains in "Arena of Fear" due to her being possessed by Mr. Ebonite]]:
** In "The Arts In Space", when one of Zhe's assistants transfers some of his power into Gabby, she sees black butterflies as well as events from the previous story, "Revolutions of Terror".
** In "Spiral Staircase", Dorothy Bell tells Gabby this:
-->''"Look at you, all those possibilities and glowing things clustered around you! Thoughts like so many '''butterflies...'''"''
* FusionDance: Dorothy Bell merges with the Key, a reality-warping Osiran AI device.
* FutureMeScaresMe: The entity in "Vortex Butterflies" is [[spoiler:a potential version of Gabby, empowered by her interactions with Zhe and the Osirans, and abandoned by the Doctor when she got powerful enough to scare him]].
* GirlOfTheWeek: Gabby develops a romantic attraction to Jamie, the soldier who survives "The Weeping Angels of Mons".
* GladiatorGames: The Monaxi force their captives into these.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The Cerebravores were created by an alien culture as a weapon against their enemies, but they got loose and destroyed all life on the planet.
* HalloweenEpisode: The story where the Doctor meets Gabby has a gang of evil Emotion Eaters attacking New York during the Dia de los Muertos.
* HeroicBSOD: How well does the Doctor and Cindy react to seeing Anubis and revealing that he is the son of Sukteh? Cindy ends up fainting, and '''the Doctor has fallen to his knees''', trying to comprehend this impossible fact. There is even a closeup of the Doctor's eye, to further hit the point home.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Both Captain Fairbairn and Father Monaghan in "The Weeping Angels of Mons".
** Dorothy sacrifices her own life to send [[spoiler:Sutekh]] back into limbo.
** Crossland breaks out of the Reach's influence and sacrifices himself to save the world in "Revolving Doors".
* HomoeroticSubtext: There's a strong innuendo that Dorothy Bell and Vivian are more than just friends.
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:Noobis's girlfriend Siffhoni is actually a Time Sentinel manipulating him]].
* HowWeGotHere: "The Singer Not The Song" begins with Gabby in danger of death as the research centre collapses.
-->'''Gabby:''' Oh, Doctor... this time you're gonna be too late. It was so... so--
* HumanResources: The Paranestene created the Cindy clones from all the people who previously lived in the Valley of the Tiger.
* HumanSubspecies: Both Neanderthals and early ''Homo sapiens sapiens'' appear in "Medicine Man".
* IKnowWhatYouFear: The Cerebravores' main attack.
* InevitableMutualBetrayal: [[spoiler:Sutekh]] views his allies merely as tools and kills most of them for lulz.
* JustTrainWrong: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Angels send two soldiers back in time to a train near Dundee, just before it is destroyed with no survivors in the real [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Bridge_disaster Tay Bridge Disaster]]. The train interior is drawn correctly as a compartment carriage, but the corridor is much too wide. Externally, both the carriages and the locomotive look very, very American.
* KickTheDog: An Angel sends Wullie and Joe back to nineteenth-century Scotland just in time for them to die in the Tay Bridge railway accident.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Inflicted by Mr. Ebonite on all the various people in his arena.
* MadArtist: Zhe is simply neurotic rather than truly "mad", but it still means that her attempts to create sentient life by block-transfer computation go very wrong.
* MindRape: Suffered by the victims of the entity in "The Wishing Well Witch", which "consumes" parts of their mind leaving them insane in different ways.
* MyOwnGrampa: "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" implies that Cindy is descended from one of the clones that the Paranestene created of her in ancient China.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: Averted, it turns out that the Osirans took precautions to clean up after themselves when they ascended.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Angels turn out to have sent Shuggy back only about fifty years and a few miles. Leading to him [[TheCavalry turning up to rescue everyone else]] in a stolen German tank.
* NoodleIncident: The Doctor apparently helped the ancient Osirans defeat various enemies, including the Racnoss.
* NowOrNeverKiss: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", Gabby and Jamie kiss while, they think, blowing themselves and all the Angels to pieces with a stock of explosives. Only for the Doctor to materialise the TARDIS around them as the explosion goes off.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Sutekh tries to kill his own son, inevitably.]]
* OneSteveLimit: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Doctor and Gabby team up with a Scottish soldier called Jamie. The similarity is alluded to.
* PocketDimension: Cindy is briefly trapped in one due to a TARDIS system failure in "The Infinite Corridor".
* PocketProtector: [[spoiler:Jack Harkness]] gave Erik a portable force field that protected him from Mr. Ebonite's weapon.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Happens to the psychic in "The Wishing Well Witch" when she sees [[spoiler:the return of Sutekh]] in Cindy's future.
* ThePowerOfRock[=/=]PsychicStatic: The best defence against the Cerebravores is your favourite song.
* PuppeteerParasite: The Nocturnes possess various musicians in "Music Man".
* RaceLift: A flashback reveals that the incarnation of Borusa who was the Doctor's tutor was black in human terms.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: The Osiran cultists are not happy to discover that their gods were SufficientlyAdvancedAliens and that the only one who is still present has no interest in rewarding them.
* RayOfHopeEnding: Year 3. By the end, [[spoiler:the Time Sentinels have been stopped, but Gabby ends up being separated from the Tenth Doctor, Cindy, Cleo and Anubis. After some shenanigans involving the Moment, she is transported back into the TARDIS... notably, '''[[UnexpectedCharacter the Twelfth Doctor's]]''']].
* RealityWarper: Zhe and her "apprentices", via block-transfer computation.
* RebusBubble: Briefly used in "Breakfast at Tyranny's" when Noobis breaks through the illusion to communicate with Cindy.
* ReligionOfEvil: Subverted - it turns out that although Namin was genuinely evil, most of the members of his religion were actually trying to keep Sutekh entrapped.
* SacrificialLion: When Erik tries to mortally harm Anubis out of anger at his faith being destroyed, Anubis's Seeker shoots his beam at Hanif, Erik's close friend who did literally nothing wrong in the previous two stories, as penance for Erik's actions.
* SealedEvilInACan:
** It turns out that [[spoiler:Sutekh]] escaped his apparent death by fleeing into the void.
** The Reach is an alien criminal sealed in a pocket universe.
* SelfDuplication: The Shan'tee are capable of this in emergency.
* SequelEpisode: The end of "Spiral Staircase" is revealed to be a direct sequel to the Fourth Doctor TV story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars "Pyramids of Mars"]].
* ShoutOut:
** The Doctor compares the Cerebravores to [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} Zuul and himself to Peter Venkman]].
** In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the Doctor recovers consciousness in a military field hospital and launches into a chorus of Edwin Starr's "War".
** Gabby introduces the Doctor to Captain Fairbairn as "ComicBook/DoctorStrange".
** In "Echoes", the Doctor claims to have been present at the time of the events of ''Film/KingKong''.
** In "The Fountains of Forever", FAB I from ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' can be seen parked outside the Ebonite Rooms.
** Cindy confuses the Cerebravores with Cerebro from ''ComicBook/XMen''.
** The Key that Dorothy merged with is also referred to as the "Hand of Sutekh" - a joking reference to a famous blooper in "Pyramids of Mars" when part of a member of the studio crew strayed into shot.
** "Dogface", Dorothy's affectionate nickname for Anubis, refers to {{Dogfaces}}, a type of anthropomorphic character common in US comics and animation.
** In "The Singer Not the Song", a research facility promoting communication between humans and sentient music is called the [[Music/ElvisPresley Presley]] Foundation, and one of the living tunes is nicknamed "Smokey" by humans, probably a reference to the great Motown singer and songwriter Smokey Robinson.
** When confronting the mother Nocturne, the Doctor breaks into the music hall song "My Old Man's A Dustman".
** In "Music Man", the Doctor is outright using "Dr. Venkman" as an alias.
** "Music Man" contains a passing reference to a bandleader called "Morton" - presumably Jelly Roll Morton.
** In "Music Man", the Chicago studio is called "Kayoh", which is a reference to the (later) music label Okeh.
** In "Sins of the Father", Cindy makes a string of ''Franchise/StarWars'' jokes to cover up her fear of Anubis.
** In "Revolving Doors", the Doctor alludes to "Break on Through to the Other Side" by Music/TheDoors.
** In "The Good Companion", there is an exchange taken verbatim from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', when [[spoiler:Gabby ends up being unable to get to the TARDIS safely]].
-->'''Cindy:''' [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove I love you!]]\\
'''Gabby:''' I know.
** Cindy's names for her clones include characters from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', ''Franchise/TheMuppets'', and Music/TheRamones.
** The Doctor names the Xerobian machine Marcie because it [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} looks like a peanut and calls him sir]].
** In "The Ghost Ship", the Doctor introduces Gabby and Cindy as [[Franchise/StarWars "Artoo" and "Threepio"]].
* TheSiege: "The Weeping Angels of Mons" is a classic Base Under Siege story with a World War One British field hospital being attacked by Weeping Angels.
* SinisterSubway: The Doctor and Gabby are attacked by a Cerebravore while travelling on a subway train.
* SoleSurvivor: In "The Ghost Ship", Captain Kelly is the only one of the ship crew to survive.
* SoundOnlyDeath: The guy who jumps off the subway train to escape the Cerebravore and lands on the third rail in "Revolutions of Terror".
* SwirlyEnergyThingy: The Circle of Transcendence appears as this when the Time Sentinel uses it to threaten Aramuko to blackmail the Doctor.
* TakeThatCritics: The Tenth Doctor story in ''The Many Lives of Doctor Who'' has the Doctor encountering [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Garrett_Anderson Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]] and helping her in her struggle against medical sexism, and is titled "Nurse Who?". In the real world "Nurse Who" was a sexist insult used by fandom misogynists to refer to the Thirteenth Doctor.
* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: Captain Fairbairn taking on a horde of Weeping Angels.
-->''[[FamousLastWords "I'm Captain Douglas Fairbairn of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. My father fought the Zulu at Rorke's Drift, my great-grandfather marched with Wellington against Napoleon, and today I'm here to fight YOU!"]]''
* TorturedMonster: The titular being in "The Wishing Well Witch", which is [[spoiler:a gestalt of seven children from ancient Gallifrey who for unknown reasons were thrown alive into the Untempered Schism]].
* TranslatorMicrobes: Subverted in "Medicine Man", when the TARDIS has problems making some things said by the Doctor and Gabby comprehensible to Munmeth because his Stone Age culture hasn't developed those concepts or anything analogous to them yet.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Alluded to by the Doctor when he goes to rescue Gabby in "Revolving Doors".
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Zhe's block-transfer "apprentices" end up manifesting her neuroses and attack her.
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:Sutekh]] rescues Cindy from the King Nocturne, but only because he wants to kill her himself.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Gabby's father to her. He finally respects her when she saves New York from the Cerebravores.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In "The Weeping Angels of Mons", the fate of the wounded soldiers and nurses after the Angels attack is not shown, although it was probably unpleasant.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: The setting of "The Weeping Angels of Mons".
* WhamShot:
** At the end of the first part of "The Fountains of Forever", the Doctor is shot by a time reversing gun. In the process, he regenerates '''backwards... into his previous incantation.'''
** The reveal of Anubis in "Spiral Staircase".
** "Old Girl: Primeval" contains the return of [[spoiler:[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Sutekh]]]].
* TheWormThatWalks: Mr. Ebonite turns out to be made of a multitude of duplicates of himself.
* YouAreNumberSix: The Paranestene assigns numbers instead of names to the Cindy clones to stop them developing individuality. It doesn't work.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In "The Ghost Ship", [=EarthCorp=] is using its more expendable employees as fodder for a weapons experiment.
* YouShallNotPass: Gabby blocks the Cerebravores from following the Doctor back to their homeworld through the portal.
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