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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Doctor has a romantic subplot with a guest character. For most of the 1963-1989 show would be unthinkable.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The novelisation dates the story as 1507.
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** Actually a case of HistoryMarchesOn as, at the time the serial aired, historians viewed Cortes as a peaceful science-minded explorer who was driven, reluctantly, to conquer the Aztecs only because of his horror at the evil of human sacrifice. So Barbara thought it was evil versus good and that she could avert the whole thing by talking the evil out of it. The DVD release includes a BBC documentary of the time, unironically presenting this older view of Cortes.
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'''Ian:''' I see ... your '''[[DoubleTake what]]'''?!\\

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'''Ian:''' I see ... your '''[[DoubleTake what]]'''?!\\''what''?!\\
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'''Ian:''' I see ... your '''what'''?\\

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'''Ian:''' I see ... your '''what'''?\\'''[[DoubleTake what]]'''?!\\
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* InventingTheWheel: The TARDIS crew is able to escape the tomb by using a wheel, which the Azrecs did not have. The Doctor takes the wheel with him so history will not be changed.

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* InventingTheWheel: The TARDIS crew is able to escape escapes the tomb by using a wheel, which the Azrecs Aztecs did not have. The Doctor takes the wheel with him so history will not be changed.
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* {{Badass}: Ian defeats an Aztec warrior with his ''thumb''.

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* {{Badass}: {{Badass}}: Ian defeats an Aztec warrior with his ''thumb''.
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*{{Badass}: Ian defeats an Aztec warrior with his ''thumb''.


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*AGodAmI: While pretending to be a god, Barbara believes herself capable of rewriting Aztec culture and history itself, despite the Doctor telling her otherwise.
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* UsefulNotes/AztecMythology

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* UsefulNotes/AztecMythologyMyth/AztecMythology
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* InventingTheWheel: The TARDIS crew is able to escape the tomb by using a wheel, which the Azrecs did not have. The Doctor takes the wheel with him so history will not be changed.
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'''The Doctor:''' Yes, [[AccidentalProposal I made some cocoa and got engaged]].

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'''The Doctor:''' Yes, [[AccidentalProposal I made some cocoa and got engaged]].
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** In "Defining the First Doctor" Creator/StevenMoffat says that as the Doctor is starting out he hasn't quite got the rules of time travel and that we can assume Aztecs civilisation being destroyed is a fixed point in time.
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'''WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''
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-> '''Ian''': ''Where did you get hold of this [brooch]?''\\
'''The Doctor''': ''My fiancée.''\\
'''Ian''': ''I see ... your '''what'''?''\\
'''The Doctor''': ''Yes, [[AccidentalProposal I made some cocoa and got engaged]].''

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-> '''Ian''': ''Where
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did you get hold of this [brooch]?''\\
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'''The Doctor''': ''My Doctor:''' My fiancée.''\\
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'''Ian:''' I
see ... your '''what'''?''\\
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'''The Doctor''': ''Yes, Doctor:''' Yes, [[AccidentalProposal I made some cocoa and got engaged]].''
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* TheBadGuyWins: The villain gets rid of the pesky false god, his rival, and he gets to keep sacrificing.
** For the time being at least. [[DownerEnding The Aztecs will still be massacred and enslaved by the Spanish and the practice of human sacrifice will cause future generations to look down upon the Aztecs as mindless savages]].
*** In other words: this episode was a lose-lose situation.

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* TheBadGuyWins: The villain gets rid of the pesky false god, his rival, and he gets to keep sacrificing.
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sacrificing. For the time being at least. [[DownerEnding The Aztecs will still be massacred and enslaved by the Spanish and the practice of human sacrifice will cause future generations to look down upon the Aztecs as mindless savages]]. \n*** In other words: this episode was a lose-lose situation.



* RightForTheWrongReasons: Tlotoxl says they will be destroyed if they follow "Yetaxa's" command to abolish HumanSacrifice, but it has less to do with the gods not being appeased, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E8FathersDay more to do with the]] ClockRoaches.

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Tlotoxl says they will be destroyed if they follow "Yetaxa's" command to abolish HumanSacrifice, but it has less to do with the gods not being appeased, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E8FathersDay [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay more to do with the]] ClockRoaches.


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* TheBadGuyWins: The villain gets rid of the pesky false god, his rival, and he get to keep sacrificing.

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* GirlOfTheWeek: It's pretty clear from the script and acting that there is some romantic tension between the Doctor and Cameca, even though the proposal was accidental.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: During Ian and Ixta's last fight, Ixta falls off the temple.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: During Ian and Ixta's last fight, throws Ixta falls off the top of the temple.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Tlotoxl says they will be destroyed if they follow "Yetaxa's" command to abolish HumanSacrifice, but it has less to do with the gods not being appeased, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E8FathersDay more to do with the]] [[ClockRoaches]].

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Tlotoxl says they will be destroyed if they follow "Yetaxa's" command to abolish HumanSacrifice, but it has less to do with the gods not being appeased, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E8FathersDay more to do with the]] [[ClockRoaches]].ClockRoaches.
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* PunchClockVillain: Tlotoxl.


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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Tlotoxl says they will be destroyed if they follow "Yetaxa's" command to abolish HumanSacrifice, but it has less to do with the gods not being appeased, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E8FathersDay more to do with the]] [[ClockRoaches]].
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* DisneyVillainDeath: During Ian and Ixta's last fight, Ixta falls off the temple.
* DrivenToSuicide: The intended victim of the sacrifice Barbara interrupts, encouraged by Tlotoxl.
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*** In other words: this episode was a lose-lose situation.
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* OhCrap: The Doctor when he realizes he's engaged.
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** For the time being at least. [[DownerEnding The Aztecs will still be massacred and enslaved by the Spanish and the practice of human sacrifice will cause future generations to look down upon the Aztecs as mindless savages]].
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* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler:The villain gets rid of the pesky false god, his rival, and he gets to keep sacrificing.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler:The TheBadGuyWins: The villain gets rid of the pesky false god, his rival, and he gets to keep sacrificing.]]
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In the middle of all that, Susan is sent off to a seminary for proper education, and gets into an AccidentalEngagement of her own and almost forced to go through with it.

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In the middle of all that, Susan is sent off to a seminary for proper education, and gets into an AccidentalEngagement ArrangedMarriage as part of her own a plot by Tlotoxl to trap and almost forced to go through with it.
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