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* StartXToStopX: The villain wants to destroy Earth's technology by encouraging the uncontrolled growth of nanotech, so people will start blaming it for all their problems and reject it. He acknowledges the hypocrisy of this but claims it's justified. (He is unaware of the greater hypocrisy [[spoiler: that he himself is a machine planted on Earth by forces unknown]]).
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* CargoCult

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* CargoCult CargoCult: The Stretton android tries to encourage people to worship nature in the form of an open field, but the Doctor is fully aware that Stretton's just acting on behalf of an alien intelligence to encourage a certain way of life.



* WhatTheHellHero: The Doctor basically does this when he condemns Brewster for killing the Catalyst when the Doctor was attempting to reprogram it. Evelyn tries to defend Brewster by arguing that he means well, but the Doctor objects to the idea that he should forgive Brewster for refusing to listen to anybody else’s ideas but his own.

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* WhatTheHellHero: The Doctor basically does this when he condemns Brewster for killing the Catalyst when the Doctor was attempting to reprogram it. Evelyn tries to defend Brewster by arguing that he means well, but the Doctor objects to the idea that he should forgive Brewster for refusing Brewster's refusal to listen to anybody else’s ideas but his own.other people.
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*{{Hypocrite}}: The Doctor explicitly denounces Stretton (or rather, the intelligence controlling Stretton) as this, denouncing how he condemns technology even though he is now a cyborg.



* UptownGirl: Clara is out of Brewster's class, and Brewster isn't allowed to court her.

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* UptownGirl: Clara is out of Brewster's class, and Brewster isn't allowed to court her.her.
*WhatTheHellHero: The Doctor basically does this when he condemns Brewster for killing the Catalyst when the Doctor was attempting to reprogram it. Evelyn tries to defend Brewster by arguing that he means well, but the Doctor objects to the idea that he should forgive Brewster for refusing to listen to anybody else’s ideas but his own.
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19th Century London, and Thomas Brewster is working on a new life during the Industrial Revolution. Honest hard work, until one day a machine takes the fingers of one of his co-workers straight off. And a friend of the sketch artist Clara's father is a Doctor but NotThatKindOfDoctor. In fact he's ''The'' [[Creator/ColinBaker Doctor]]. Whilst Thomas tries to figure out what he's doing there with Evelyn, the workers in Lancashire are afraid the machines are taking over.

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19th Century London, and Thomas Brewster is working on a new life during the Industrial Revolution. Honest hard work, until one day a machine takes the fingers of one of his co-workers straight off. And a friend of the sketch artist Clara's father is a Doctor but NotThatKindOfDoctor. In fact he's ''The'' [[Creator/ColinBaker Doctor]].

Whilst Thomas tries to figure out what he's doing there with Evelyn, the workers in Lancashire are afraid the machines are taking over.
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19th Century London, and Thomas Brewster is working on a new life during the Industrial Revolution. Honest hard work, until one day a machine takes the fingers of one of his co-workers straight off. And a friend of the sketch artist Clara's father is a Doctor but NotThatKindOfDoctor. In fact he's ''The'' [[Creator/ColinBaker Doctor]].
Whilst Thomas tries to figure out what he's doing there with Evelyn, the workers in Lancashire are afraid the machines are taking over.

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19th Century London, and Thomas Brewster is working on a new life during the Industrial Revolution. Honest hard work, until one day a machine takes the fingers of one of his co-workers straight off. And a friend of the sketch artist Clara's father is a Doctor but NotThatKindOfDoctor. In fact he's ''The'' [[Creator/ColinBaker Doctor]].
Doctor]]. Whilst Thomas tries to figure out what he's doing there with Evelyn, the workers in Lancashire are afraid the machines are taking over.
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* BiggerBad: Stetton (and by proxy, the machine creatures) were sent to Earth to stifle its technological progress.
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Whilst Thomas tries to figure out what he's doing there with Evelyn, the workers in Lancishire are afraid the machines are taking over.

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Whilst Thomas tries to figure out what he's doing there with Evelyn, the workers in Lancishire Lancashire are afraid the machines are taking over.



* BigRedDevil: Belfrage is a Carlian, who's true forms are red, scaley and tailed. The Doctor says if he walked around without a "Human patch" people'd think he was the devil.
* BoomerangBigot: Stetton.

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* BigRedDevil: Belfrage is a Carlian, who's true forms are red, scaley and tailed. The Doctor says if he walked around without a "Human patch" people'd people would think he was the devil.
* BoomerangBigot: Stetton.Stretton.



* CreepyBasement: The cellar is pitchblack, and full of scary creaks.

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* CreepyBasement: The cellar is pitchblack, pitch black, and full of scary creaks.



* ManVersusMachine: ... In Industrial Revolution England.

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* ManVersusMachine: ... In in Industrial Revolution England.



* ShoutOut: The Doctor says he can "[[Theatre/LadyWindermeresFan Resist anything but temptation]]."

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* ShoutOut: The Doctor says he can "[[Theatre/LadyWindermeresFan Resist resist anything but temptation]]."
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* ShoutOut: The Doctor says he can "[[Creator/OscarWilde Resist anything but temptation]]."

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* ShoutOut: The Doctor says he can "[[Creator/OscarWilde "[[Theatre/LadyWindermeresFan Resist anything but temptation]]."
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* BiggerBad: Stetton (and by proxy, the machine creatures) were sent to Earth to stifle its technological progress.
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* AlienBlood: Belfrage's blood is purple.
* AmbiguousRobots: It's unknown whether or not the Catalyst is machine or creature.
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* ScoobyDooHoax: Stetton creates cyborg creatures to scare people away from the use of technology.
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* BoomerangBigot: Stetton.
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* CargoCult


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* {{Cyborg}}: Machines with human parts instead of electronic.
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* ManVersusMachine: ... In Industrial Revolution England.
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* LethalJokeWeapon: The Doctor uses a glue gun to stop the machine man.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Clara's dad locks her out of a room, and halts a wave of machines which then proceed to tear him apart.
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* MadWomanInTheAttic: The cellar is host to a man consisting out of borrowed flesh and pipes.
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* HumanResources: The machines are creating cyborgs and harvesting human parts.
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* AssholeVictim: Townsend.
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** Also part {{Cyborg}}.
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* MixAndMatchMan: One piece at a time.
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* TookAShortCut: Mr. Belfrage takes a train to Liverpool as soon as the Doctor and Evelyn confront him. They just take the TARDIS.

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* TookAShortCut: Mr. Belfrage takes a train to Liverpool as soon as the Doctor and Evelyn confront him. They just take the TARDIS.TARDIS.
* UptownGirl: Clara is out of Brewster's class, and Brewster isn't allowed to court her.
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* BigRedDevil: Belfrage is a Carlian, who's true forms are red, scaley and tailed. The Doctor says if he walked around without a "Human patch" people'd think he was the devil.


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* FirstContact: Because Earth hasn't had its own yet, taking resources from it from the outside is illegal in intergalactic law.


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* ThisBananaIsArmed: Belfrage points a "Metallurgic spectrometer" at the Doctor and Evelyn.
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* ShoutOut: The Doctor says he can "[[Creator/OscarWilde Resist anything but temptation]]."

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* ShoutOut: The Doctor says he can "[[Creator/OscarWilde Resist anything but temptation]].""
* TookAShortCut: Mr. Belfrage takes a train to Liverpool as soon as the Doctor and Evelyn confront him. They just take the TARDIS.
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* BeepingComputers: The strange device the Doctor and Evelyn find randomly beeps and bleeps.
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* CreepyBasement: The cellar is pitchblack, and full of scary creaks.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Mr. Belfrage comes back from his journey and hears there's a strike, he immediately gives in to the demands of the workers.
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* NotThatKindOfDoctor: The Doctor passes himself off as an engineer.

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* NotThatKindOfDoctor: The Doctor passes himself off as an engineer.engineer.
* ShoutOut: The Doctor says he can "[[Creator/OscarWilde Resist anything but temptation]]."
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19th Century London, and Thomas Brewster is working on a new life during the Industrial Revolution. Honest hard work, until one day a machine takes the fingers of one of his co-workers straight off. And a friend of the sketch artist Clara's father is a Doctor but NotThatKindOfDoctor. In fact he's ''The'' [[Creator/ColinBaker Doctor]].
Whilst Thomas tries to figure out what he's doing there with Evelyn, the workers in Lancishire are afraid the machines are taking over.

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!!Industrial Evolution contains the following examples:
* GoToAlias: Dr. ''Smith''.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: The Doctor passes himself off as an engineer.

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