History Recap / DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven

* ComplexityAddiction: Ashildr could have just invited the Doctor for tea and drug him or something - he has no real reason to suspect her. Instead she stages an elaborate deception, endangering several people's lives.

* CooldownHug: Although Clara and the Doctor's hug is primarily intended as part of her farewell and an attempt by her to comfort the Doctor, it also qualifies or this trope as it occurs during Clara's last-ditch effort to prevent the Doctor from going berserk after she dies -- this includes the fact that she consciously stops the Doctor before he has a chance to say "I love you" or anything approaching this which could undo her efforts. He does appear noticably calmer (if no less sad) afterwards.
* CopyProtection: The "trap street" method of copy protection is discussed in universe. However, there is at least one trap street that is a real place.

->''"Let me be brave... let me be brave..."''

''Have you ever found yourself in a street you’ve never seen before? The next day, could you not find that street again? You weren’t dreaming. Your memory isn’t playing tricks. Like many lost souls throughout the ages, you have stumbled on an extraordinary secret - be grateful you survived it. The Doctor and Clara, with their old friend Rigsy, find themselves in a secret alien world, folded away among the streets of London. Sheltered within are some of the most fearsome creatures of the universe… and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived Ashildr]]! [[TonightSomeoneDies Not all of them will get out alive. One of the three intruders must face the raven...]]''

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]", Clara prevented Rigsy from making a StupidSacrifice to save a handful of people. Now it's Clara's turn to commit a StupidSacrifice, only this time Rigsy is unable to prevent it.

** Possibly a coincidence, possibly not: in (the original) Clara's first episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn The Bells of Saint John]]", she is seen wearing a raven-shaped necklace. Now, in the episode depicting her final death, her life is ended by something that looks like a raven. The maiden name of Clara's mother, by the way, was ''Raven''wood.

** Clara is fearless in her efforts to save Rigsy, even taking on his death sentence as part of her plan, sure that she'll be able to get it lifted. It helps her case that Rigsy was effectively her companion in "Flatline", where she had to be the Doctor for the day while he was trapped, and Rigsy calls ''her'' when he needs help now. Clara's not just a PluckyGirl, she's the Impossible Girl who survived the Doctor's own timestream and endured myriad perils and traumas with him. Clara can stand as the equal of the Doctor, down to his ChronicHeroSyndrome. And by the end of this episode, she is desperately whispering "Let me be brave..." as she faces her death, and goes to her grave fearing that her demise will turn her dearest friend and the greatest healer in the universe into a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. Cranked UpToEleven when viewed in concert with the later episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12Hellbent "Hell Bent"]], in which we discover that the Clara we see who faces the raven, screams and dies is an untold number of years older than the one who walked into the street, who has experienced untold adventures ... yet something in her future makes her eventually decide to return to meet her death.

** The Doctor has renounced his name before ("[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]"), and has threatened to do so before ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow The Beast Below]]"). This is the first time we've seen him do it as a full-out threat.
** Clara preventing the Doctor from saying "I love you" (or anything resembling this statement) is reminiscent of the Tenth Doctor's difficulty saying it to Rose in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Doomsday]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]".
** Clara was seen on two occasions wearing a raven-shaped necklace, most recently in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived The Woman Who Lived]]", but amazingly in her ''very first full episode'', "[[DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn The Bells of Saint John]]". An earlier episode also established that her mother's maiden name was ''Raven''wood.

** Clara's actions and fate are the culmination of her character development since Series 7, from the Doctor's latest Earthly friend to coming very close to being his DistaffCounterpart. She even goes to her grave making a sacrifice for a single innocent, as the Doctor has done on multiple occasions... but unlike him, she can never come back, at least not by any means that wouldn't potentially do great harm to space and time.
* ChekhovsGun: Clara left Rigsy an emergency TARDIS number at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]" -- and now he has a reason to use it.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Clara is KilledOffForReal when her overconfident plan to save Rigsy costs her her life, and the Doctor, who is ''enraged'', is teleported away to who-knows-where, with no way to trace him and no TARDIS, all at the hands of an unrevealed hostile third party who will be getting his confession dial as part of the deal. His death is the ''only'' thing that will open that dial. The DespairEventHorizon is looming...

** When counting his footsteps while looking for the entrance to the street, the Doctor says "Remember 82". 1982 was when "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock]]", the last ''Doctor Who'' story to have a companion (Adric) KilledOffForReal, was broadcast. (This one is so obscure that it comes very close to being a BigLippedAlligatorMoment as the Doctor seems to just randomly grab some passing young boy in order to tie his shoe, asking him to "remember 82" for no apparent reason.)

** Clara acknowledges that she has been taking risks recently, reflecting her behaviour for much of Series 9. Her statement about wanting to be reckless like the Doctor puts a bow on this, while directly recalling episodes in which she acted like the Doctor, most notably this episode's direct antecedent, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]".
** The Doctor is prevented from [[TheILoveYouStigma saying anything approaching "I love you"]], just as he was in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Doomsday]]", though this time his companion stops him; this is followed up by her invoking a sentiment similar to "Does it need saying?", much like "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]". The fact Clara herself does not say the phrase reflects the promise she made to Danny Pink in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven Death in Heaven]]" that she would never say "I love you" to anyone else.
** The post-credits scene recalls Rigsy's skills at graffiti art as last seen in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]".

* CrucifiedHeroShot: Clara stands with her arms out to her sides, wracked with pain, after the raven flies into her. It may or may not be coincidence that she adopts a similar pose to what some past Doctors (specifically the Ninth and Tenth Doctors) entered when they regenerated... minus the regeneration part.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin

'''Clara:''' Nobody did! I did! Rump said...\\

'''Clara:''' He said the death is locked in. You can pass it on, but... but... (oh, crap...)\\

* FamousLastWords: "Let me be brave... let me be brave..."

** Acceptance: But '''only''' for Clara. Tragically, because he's immediately sent off to the lonely, deadly world of the confession dial in the next episode, the Doctor ends up cycling through Anger and Depression for a long, long time to come. It ultimately drives him to Denial that there is no way he can ''safely'' save her, so in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]" he tries Bargaining again... '''with the universe.'''

* HeartbrokenBadass: As Clara's final story sees her [[BreakTheCutie broken]], so too does it break the Doctor's hearts. She reminds him to keep to the mark, be a doctor, take care of others... but ''who will take care of him?'' All she can tell him to do is "Heal yourself." She doesn't tell him ''how'', and in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]" she'll learn that his way of doing so is ''not'' what she had in mind.
* HeroicBSOD: Although he breaks out of it momentarily to deliver the {{Freakout}} described above, the Doctor is in a state of Heroic BSOD during Clara's farewell, at one point even uttering "This can't be happening". He breaks out of it just before the transporter kicks in... long enough to utter words to Mayor Me that chill her to the bone.

** As in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived The Woman Who Lived]]", Ashildr makes a deal with another party without being fully aware of their intentions -- although for much less selfish reasons this time around. She has no idea what this other party, whom she does not identify, wants with the Doctor and his confession dial. It's possible she doesn't remember how badly things went with Leandro, or she ''does'' but doesn't care what happens to the Doctor at this point, as when the deal is made and the plan to frame Rigsy hatched, he looks to be the only one who might suffer. She might even be assuming that whatever happens to the Doctor, he'll find a way out of it ''before'' he suffers. Clara's choice, however, not only leaves her dead but completely ruins any hopes that the Doctor will forgive Ashildr's actions, given he initially threatens to have her ''and everyone else'' brutally killed as vengeance. Ultimately, it's never made clear whether he forgives her or not when all is said and done.
** The Doctor told O'Donnell, who greatly admired him, to stay behind in the TARDIS when they traveled back to TheEighties in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E4BeforeTheFlood Before the Flood]]", but she was hot to go with him and Bennett and the Doctor didn't force the issue. For her recklessness, she ended up dead, and the Doctor (being a PragmaticHero) made the best of it, as it were, by having this confirm his theory on the message his ghost in the future was sending. Clara's death here is also attributable to recklessness inspired by the Doctor's example, and the Doctor not doing enough to discourage it though he was aware of it -- [[SenselessSacrifice and it doesn't even serve a greater purpose this time]], since Ashildr's plan could have wrapped up with no one dying at all had Clara not interfered.
* HopeSpot: Clara says to the Doctor, "We can fix this." Only for the Doctor to say "No." She tries for another after the Doctor's meltdown by asking Me if she's certain there's nothing that can be done. For the Doctor, for Clara, and for the audience when the Doctor threatens to "rain hell" upon Ashildr if she doesn't remove the chronolock... only for all three to realize nothing can be done.

* ILetGwenStacyDie: The Doctor clearly feels this way about Clara's fate. After all, "What's the point of being a Doctor if I can't cure you?" In the next two episodes, his anguish will spiral out of control and mutate into insanity: He believes that while he is choosing to become TheUnfettered rather than the Doctor by trying to undo her death, he is maintaining his "duty of care" to her. In truth, he is only becoming the monster she ordered him not to become -- she wanted him to move past his pain and stay the Doctor. But she didn't know what horrors he was doomed to experience when she told him that...

* LoveMakesYouEvil: When the Doctor freaks out at Ashildr over Clara's impending demise, not only does he threaten to destroy her and everyone she loves (implying everyone on the trap street), he says he'll do so using the military (clearly indicated over the previous two series as ''not'' being his favourite people) ''and'' the ruthless Daleks and Cybermen who are his mortal enemies. To put a bow on it, he even momentarily denounces his own name, The Doctor, which in the mythos of the series is A. Huge. Thing. Clara literally spends nearly all of the rest of her (natural, anyway) life talking him down...and once she's gone and he's teleported away there's literally ''no one'' to encourage him not to become a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.

* MeaningfulEcho: Clara's plan to take on the death sentence herself is, at its core concept, identical to what the Doctor did with the Foretold in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E8MummyOnTheOrientExpress Mummy on the Orient Express]]".

* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: Given her final speech, Clara clearly hopes to be this to the Doctor -- she knows he doesn't handle being alone well and has committed atrocious acts in his lives when in the throes of despair. She specifically calls back to her climactic speech to the Eleventh Doctor in "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]", urging the Twelfth to be a doctor, not a warrior. The Doctor's final speech to Ashildr, before he is teleported away, suggests that though he wants to honor Clara's memory by not giving in to anguish and rage, living up to his chosen name will be ''very, very'' difficult for him in the immediate future.

* TheNicknamer: As he did in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]", the Doctor calls Rigsy "Local Knowledge". When the Doctor addresses him (Rigsy) by his real name he has a quite justified freakout and pleads with the Doctor to not call him that because he knows it was SeriousBusiness.

** [[http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/face-the-raven-review-78229.htm This review points out]] that if the Doctor told Clara about how Ashildr's personality had changed since "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied The Girl Who Died]]", Clara wouldn't have trusted her so much.

* RealTime: This is easier to determine when watching the original non-commercial version of the episode, but from the moment Clara tells Anahson there is only 12 minutes left on the countdown until Clara is struck by the raven and dies... is indeed 12 minutes. Similarly, when Clara reveals her neck to Ashildr and it shows eight minutes left, Clara dies eight minutes of screen time later.

* SequelEpisode: To both "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied The Girl Who Died]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived The Woman Who Lived]]", with Rigsy from the former story and Ashildr from the latter.

** The trap street has a ''strong'' physical resemblance to [[Franchise/HarryPotter Diagon Alley]] (and both are hidden "magical" worlds within London). In an [[http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com/2015/11/exclusive-sarah-dollard-face-raven_18.html interview with Blogtor Who]], writer Sarah Dollard explained that her script described the street's appearance quite differently, but designer Michael Pickwoad had other ideas...
** The episode has a moody setting and involves a supernatural corvid and the notion that one should come to terms with a beloved person's death by other means than seeking and enacting revenge on the people responsible. [[Film/TheCrow Hm...]]

* ShrineToTheFallen: The TARDIS exterior becomes one for Clara in TheStinger, since the Doctor's not going to be using it for a while...

* TheStinger: In addition to the Next Time trailer for "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent Heaven Sent]]", this episode has an additional scene after the end credits roll: Rigsy painting a memorial to Clara on the front of the currently-abandoned TARDIS. This is the first time such a scene has been included in a ''Doctor Who'' episode -- which backfired slightly as many viewers of the later "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]" evidently never saw the stinger, and were confused as to why the TARDIS was covered with flowers and Clara's image. BBC America airings move its placement to between the "Next Time" trailer for "Heaven Sent" and the end credits, due to their CreditsPushback format.

* ThisIsUnforgivable: How the Doctor regards Ashildr's actions once they result -- accidentally or not -- in Clara's death; only Clara herself can stop him from dishing out punishment. As noted above, he never does openly forgive her by the end of "Hell Bent".

* YouExclamation: When Ashildr arrives to take charge of matters in the trap street, this is the Doctor's response; he had the same reaction when she took off her Knightmare disguise in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived The Woman Who Lived]]".

* BeingGoodSucks: The Doctor saving Ashildr when the only other option was letting her die paved the way for the events of this episode, and Clara is so desperate to save Rigsy that she ends up needlessly dooming herself and leaving the Doctor anguished and enraged. She instructs the grieving Doctor not to punish/harm Ashildr or anyone else for this, meaning he can't enjoy the cruel satisfaction of settling the score -- not to mention he has to accept being teleported away at the end. No wonder this episode's ending is the start of a ProtagonistJourneyToVillain for the Doctor.

* {{Bookends}}: When we first saw Jenna Coleman as one of the Clara splinters, Oswin, she died in a place called the Asylum. Now, Clara-Prime dies in a place called the Asylum.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline "Flatline"]], Clara prevented Rigsy from making a StupidSacrifice to save a handful of people. Now it's Clara's turn to commit a StupidSacrifice, only this time Rigsy is unable to prevent it.

** Possibly a coincidence, possibly not: in (the original) Clara's first episode, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of Saint John"]], she is seen wearing a raven-shaped necklace. Now, in the episode depicting her final death, her life is ended by something that looks like a raven. The maiden name of Clara's mother, by the way, was ''Raven''wood.

** For all his badass boasting, the Doctor is left utterly broken by Clara's death. (And he ultimately remains broken for a very, very, ''very'' long time.)
* BreakTheCutie: Clara is trying her hardest " be brave" when the Raven comes.

* BreakTheHaughty: Ashildr, aka Mayor Me, after the Doctor puts the fear of God into her at the end.

** The unknown party Ashildr made a deal with wants -- and looks to be getting -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice the Doctor's confession dial]]. Do they - and Ashildr - know it won't open until the Doctor dies?

** The Doctor has renounced his name before ([[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor "The Night of the Doctor"]]), and has threatened to do so before ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow "The Beast Below"]]). This is the first time we've seen him do it as a full-out threat.
** Clara preventing the Doctor from saying "I love you" (or anything resembling this statement) is reminiscent of the Tenth Doctor's difficulty saying it to Rose in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]].
** Clara was seen on two occasions wearing a raven-shaped necklace, most recently in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]], but amazingly in her ''very first full episode'', [[DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of Saint John"]]. An earlier episode also established that her mother's maiden name was ''Raven''wood.

** Clara's actions and fate are the culmination of her character development since Series 7, from the Doctor's latest Earthly friend to coming very close to being his DistaffCounterpart. She even goes to her grave making a sacrifice for a single innocent, as the Doctor has done on multiple occasions . . . but unlike him, she can never come back, at least not by any means that wouldn't potentially do great harm to space and time. This doesn't stop the Doctor from trying and partially succeeding . . .
* ChekhovsGun: Clara left Rigsy an emergency TARDIS number at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline "Flatline"]] -- and now he has a reason to use it.

* CooldownHug: Although Clara and the Doctor's hug is primarily intended as part of her farewell and an attempt by her to comfort the Doctor, it also qualifies or this trope as it occurs during Clara's last-ditch effort to prevent the Doctor from going berserk after she dies - this includes the fact that she consciously stops the Doctor before he has a chance to say "I love you" or anything approaching this which could undo her efforts. He does appear noticably calmer (if no less sad) afterwards.

** When counting his footsteps while looking for the entrance to the street, the Doctor says "Remember 82". 1982 was when [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]], the last ''Doctor Who'' story to have a companion (Adric) KilledOffForReal, was broadcast. (This one is so obscure that it comes very close to being a BigLippedAlligatorMoment as the Doctor seems to just randomly grab some passing young boy in order to tie his shoe, asking him to "remember 82" for no apparent reason.)

** Clara acknowledges that she has been taking risks recently, reflecting her behaviour for much of Series 9. Her statement about wanting to be reckless like the Doctor puts a bow on this, while directly recalling episodes in which she acted like the Doctor, most notably this episode's direct antecedent, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline "Flatline"]].
** The Doctor is prevented from [[TheILoveYouStigma saying anything approaching "I love you"]], just as he was in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]], though this time his companion stops him; this is followed up by her invoking a sentiment similar to "Does it need saying?", much like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]]. The fact Clara herself does not say the phrase reflects the promise she made to Danny Pink in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven "Death in Heaven"]] that she would never say "I love you" to anyone else.
** The post-credits scene recalls Rigsy's skills at graffiti art as last seen in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline "Flatline"]].

* CrucifiedHeroShot: Clara stands with her arms out to her sides, wracked with pain, after the raven flies into her. It may or may not be coincidence that she adopts a similar pose to what some past Doctors (specifically the Ninth and Tenth Doctors) entered when they regenerated . . . minus the regeneration part.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Clara's plan going into the "taking the chronolock thing" is explicitly a time gaining gesture. She has no idea what she's going to do afterward. It's hinted that Ashildr feels this way because there was no way she could have predicted Clara's actions.

'''Clara:''' He said the death is locked in. You can pass it on, but...but... (oh, crap...)\\

* FamousLastWords: "Let me be brave . . . let me be brave . . ."

** Acceptance: But '''only''' for Clara. Tragically, because he's immediately sent off to the lonely, deadly world of the confession dial in the next episode, the Doctor ends up cycling through Anger and Depression for a long, long time to come. It ultimately drives him to Denial that there is no way he can ''safely'' save her, so in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]] he tries Bargaining again . . . '''with the universe.'''

* HeartbrokenBadass: As Clara's final story sees her [[BreakTheCutie broken]], so too does it break the Doctor's hearts. She reminds him to keep to the mark, be a doctor, take care of others...but ''who will take care of him?'' All she can tell him to do is "Heal yourself." She doesn't tell him ''how'', and in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]] she'll learn that his way of doing so is ''not'' what she had in mind.
* HeroicBSOD: Although he breaks out of it momentarily to deliver the {{Freakout}} described above, the Doctor is in a state of Heroic BSOD during Clara's farewell, at one point even uttering "This can't be happening". He breaks out of it just before the transporter kicks in . . . long enough to utter words to Mayor Me that chill her to the bone.
* HeroicSacrifice:

** As in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]], Ashildr makes a deal with another party without being fully aware of their intentions -- although for much less selfish reasons this time around. She has no idea what this other party, whom she does not identify, wants with the Doctor and his confession dial. It's possible she doesn't remember how badly things went with Leandro, or she ''does'' but doesn't care what happens to the Doctor at this point, as when the deal is made and the plan to frame Rigsy hatched, he looks to be the only one who might suffer. She might even be assuming that whatever happens to the Doctor, he'll find a way out of it ''before'' he suffers. Clara's choice, however, not only leaves her dead but completely ruins any hopes that the Doctor will forgive Ashildr's actions, given he initially threatens to have her ''and everyone else'' brutally killed as vengeance. Ultimately, it's never made clear whether he forgives her or not when all is said and done.
** The Doctor told O'Donnell, who greatly admired him, to stay behind in the TARDIS when they traveled back to TheEighties in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E4BeforeTheFlood "Before the Flood"]], but she was hot to go with him and Bennett and the Doctor didn't force the issue. For her recklessness, she ended up dead, and the Doctor (being a PragmaticHero) made the best of it, as it were, by having this confirm his theory on the message his ghost in the future was sending. Clara's death here is also attributable to recklessness inspired by the Doctor's example, and the Doctor not doing enough to discourage it though he was aware of it -- [[SenselessSacrifice and it doesn't even serve a greater purpose this time]], since Ashildr's plan could have wrapped up with no one dying at all had Clara not interfered.

* ImplacableMan: During his FreakOut, the Doctor threatens to become this towards Ashildr. And when he says "I will rain hell on you until the end of time," this is one character capable of carrying out the threat literally - to the one character who would have no choice but to endure it literally until the end of time.

* MeaningfulEcho: Clara's plan to take on the death sentence herself is, at its core concept, identical to what the Doctor did with the Foretold in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E8MummyOnTheOrientExpress "Mummy on the Orient Express"]].

* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: Given her final speech, Clara clearly hopes to be this to the Doctor -- she knows he doesn't handle being alone well and has committed atrocious acts in his lives when in the throes of despair. She specifically calls back to her climactic speech to the Eleventh Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], urging the Twelfth to be a doctor, not a warrior. The Doctor's final speech to Ashildr, before he is teleported away, suggests that though he wants to honor Clara's memory by not giving in to anguish and rage, living up to his chosen name will be ''very, very'' difficult for him in the immediate future.

* TheNicknamer: As he did in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline "Flatline"]], the Doctor calls Rigsy "Local Knowledge". When the Doctor addresses him (Rigsy) by his real name he has a quite justified freakout and pleads with the Doctor to not call him that because he knows it was SeriousBusiness.

** The Doctor might have avoided all or some of this if he'd just let an innocent young Viking girl die in the 6th century instead of saving her in a way that made her immortal. Which, in turn, might have happened if [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii he'd let Caecilius and his family die]], rather than saving him and remembering his face. With TheReveal in the next episode that '''the Time Lords''' are the party who made the bargain with Ashildr, he's effectively being punished for ''[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor saving and protecting his homeworld and people]]'' rather than letting billions of innocents burn or [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor allowing the Time War to begin again]]. '''And''' given Clara's vital role in helping save Gallifrey...well, it's no wonder the Doctor undergoes a ProtagonistJourneyToVillain from this point onwards!

** A deleted scene included with the DVD/Blu-ray release indicates that the Doctor and Clara had a run-in with Creator/DerrenBrown - who may or may not be an alien - that resulted in the performer being declared persona non grata by the Doctor.

* NotSoStoic: The Doctor's facade drops away completely when he is forced to say goodbye to Clara.

** [[http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/face-the-raven-review-78229.htm This review points out]] that if the Doctor told Clara about how Ashildr's personality had changed since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied "The Girl Who Died"]], Clara wouldn't have trusted her so much.

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Upon realizing that he has not only been betrayed and trapped but will lose Clara for good as well, the Doctor has a FreakOut. Clara realizes that he won't have anyone to help him through his grief and coming ordeal, and orders him not to undergo this trope by way of honouring her memory and making sure no one else suffers. But as it turns out, said ordeal will be far crueler than she imagined, and he will undergo the dark journey as a result.

* RealTime: This is easier to determine when watching the original non-commercial version of the episode, but from the moment Clara tells Anahson there is only 12 minutes left on the countdown until Clara is struck by the raven and dies . . . is indeed 12 minutes. Similarly, when Clara reveals her neck to Ashildr and it shows eight minutes left, Clara dies eight minutes of screen time later.

* SequelEpisode: To both [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline "Flatline"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied "The Girl Who Died"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]], with Rigsy from the former story and Ashildr from the latter.

** The trap street has a ''strong'' physical resemblance to [[Franchise/HarryPotter Diagon Alley]] (and both are hidden "magical" worlds within London). In an [[http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com/2015/11/exclusive-sarah-dollard-face-raven_18.html interview with Blogtor Who]], writer Sarah Dollard explained that her script described the street's appearance quite differently, but designer Michael Pickwoad had other ideas . . .
** The episode has a moody setting and involves a supernatural corvid and the notion that one should come to terms with a beloved person's death by other means than seeking and enacting revenge on the people responsible. [[Film/TheCrow Hm . . .]]

* ShrineToTheFallen: The TARDIS exterior becomes one for Clara in TheStinger, since the Doctor's not going to be using it for a while . . .

* TheStinger: In addition to the Next Time trailer for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent "Heaven Sent"]], this episode has an additional scene after the end credits roll: Rigsy painting a memorial to Clara on the front of the currently-abandoned TARDIS. This is the first time such a scene has been included in a ''Doctor Who'' episode -- which backfired slightly as many viewers of the later [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]] evidently never saw the stinger, and were confused as to why the TARDIS was covered with flowers and Clara's image. BBC America airings move its placement to between the "Next Time" trailer for "Heaven Sent" and the end credits, due to their CreditsPushback format.

* TooCleverByHalf: Both Ashildr and Clara come up with their own clever (if extremely risky) plan to get what they want, and are confident that they're intelligent enough to predict exactly how it'll work out. Their arrogance gets Clara killed and Ashildr spending the rest of her immortal life in terror of the Doctor's vengeance. In a harmless example, the Doctor's bright idea of comparing historical maps to current ones is shot down when Clara remarks that mapmakers add nonexistent streets to city maps all the time as a copyright-protection gimmick.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Ashildr's part of the plot is pretty minor. Basically all she had to do was come up with a way to lure the Doctor to the trap street, get his confession dial, and that would be it, with no one getting hurt (at least on trap street). She didn't intend for Clara to die and likely had no inkling that the Doctor would be put into a torture chamber for the next 4½ billion years. She also appears to be unaware of the Time Lords' involvement.

* WhamEpisode: Clara is KilledOffForReal (later episodes do ''not'' change this fact) and the Doctor is teleported away by ''someone'' who knows about his confession dial to an unknown location.

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Rigsy reacts in fear when the Doctor calls him 'Rigsy' rather than using a nickname. [[AllThereInTheManual in the published script for the episode,]] a deleted scene after Clara's death has the Doctor asking Rigsy permission to call him that before requesting that he notify Clara's family and school of her death.

* YouExclamation: When Ashildr arrives to take charge of matters in the trap street, this is the Doctor's response; he had the same reaction when she took off her Knightmare disguise in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]].

* HeartbrokenBadass: As Clara's final story sees her [[BreakTheCutie broken]], so too does it break the Doctor's hearts. She reminds him to keep to the mark, be a doctor, take care of others...but ''who will take care of him?'' All she can tell him to do is "Heal yourself." She doesn't tell him ''how'', and in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3512HellBent "Hell Bent"]] she'll learn that his way of doing so is ''not'' what she had in mind.

* TheCorpseStopsHere: Rigsy is accused of murder after he is found standing over the body at the mouth of the alley.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The episode is supposed to be set in London, but features many noticeable Cardiff locations that give away the fact that Cardiff is doubling for the capital. While this is not unusual for ''Doctor Who'', it is particularly glaring in this episode, especially as one scene was filmed in front of a well-known Cardiff monument.

** The physical damage done to the old man and later to Clara appears to be enough to cause them great pain, and apparently isn't something the Doctor can use regeneration energy to heal (since if he was willing to spare some for ''Davros'' he'd certainly do it for her). The rest is ([[NightmareFuel unfortunately]]) left to our imagination.

* AllThereInTheManual: The BBC published [[http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/DW9-EP10-Face-the-Raven.pdf the script]] for the episode, which reveals details that didn't make it to air, including revealing Rigsy's real name. Rigsy's wife is also featured in the story, but is absent from the final episode (though she appears in a deleted scene). A key moment in the script but not the episode has the Doctor bringing Clara's body inside, instructing Rigsy to take care of her remains and notify her school and family, and demanding that Me allow Rigsy to keep his memory. If the scene had been included it would have alleviated some fan backlash from those upset at the implication that the Doctor simply left Clara lying alone in the street, and the plot hole created by showing Rigsy painting a mural to Clara at the end, even though he shouldn't have any memory of the incident. The script also fills the plot hole as to why Me's tattoo doesn't move when Clara's raven is unleashed.

* AnimatedTattoo: The one on Rigsy's back (and, later, Clara's) that acts as DeathsHourglass. Ashildr also has one, which comes to life when an execution is taking place (except Clara's).

* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Defied. If it weren't for Clara, the Doctor would've brought Hell down on Ashildr but he doesn't. At the episode's end he tells Ashildr to make sure they never meet again because he's still ''very'' angry at her, which might be harder than it seems since the universe is a smaller place than most people think it is...

* TheBadGuyWins: The BigBad gets the Doctor where they want them and Ashildr/Me gets protection for the trap street. Clara basically ''demands'' the Doctor let this trope stand by telling him he can't have {{Revenge}} on either party to boot.

* BodyHorror: Retroactively applied when it's learned that Anah has a second face on the back of her head. When Rigsy experiences his first memory of her apparent death she's lying on her back with blood coming ''from behind her head''. (Even though this is ultimately revealed as a trick, it's still a very squicky moment for this show.)
** The physical damage done to the old man and later to Clara appears to be enough to cause them great pain, and apparently can't be something the Doctor can use regeneration energy to heal (since if he was willing to spare some for ''Davros'' he'd certainly do it for her). The rest is ([[NightmareFuel unfortunately]]) left to our imagination.

** Clara is fearless in her efforts to save Rigsy, even taking on his death sentence as part of her plan, sure that she'll be able to get it lifted. It helps her case that Rigsy was effectively her companion in "Flatline", where she had to be the Doctor for the day while he was trapped, and Rigsy calls ''her'' when he needs help now. Clara's not just a PluckyGirl, she's the Impossible Girl who survived the Doctor's own timestream and endured myriad perils and traumas with him. Clara can stand as the equal of the Doctor, down to his ChronicHeroSyndrome. And by the end of this episode, she is desperately whispering "Let me be brave..." as she faces her death, and goes to her grave fearing that her demise will turn her dearest friend and the greatest healer in the universe into a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. Cranked UpToEleven when viewed in concert with the later episode "Hell Bent", in which we discover that the Clara we see who takes the raven, screams and dies is an untold number of years older than the one who walked into the street, who has experienced untold adventures ... yet something in her future makes her eventually decide to return to meet her death.
** For all his badass boasting, the Doctor is left utterly broken by Clara's death. (And he ultimately remains broken for a very, very, very long time.)

* CaliforniaDoubling: The episode is supposed to be set in London but features many noticeable Cardiff locations that give away the fact that Cardiff is doubling for the capital. While this is not unusual for Doctor Who, it is particularly glaring in this episode, especially as one scene was filmed in front of a well-known Cardiff monument.

** The ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' drug Retcon turns up as the reason for Rigsy's memory loss, making this the second reference to the spinoff in Series 9 after the mention of Captain Jack Harkness in "The Woman Who Lived".

** Clara preventing the Doctor from saying "I love you" (or anything resembling this statement) is reminiscent of the Tenth Doctor's difficulty saying it to Rose in "Doomsday" and "Journey's End".

** Clara's actions and fate are the culmination of her character development since Series 7, from the Doctor's latest Earthly friend to coming very close to being his DistaffCounterpart. She even goes to her grave making a sacrifice for a single innocent, as the Doctor has done on multiple occasions...but unlike him, she can never come back, at least not by any means that wouldn't potentially do great harm to space and time. This doesn't stop the Doctor from trying and partially succeeding...
* ChekhovsGun: Clara left Rigsy an emergency TARDIS number at the end of "Flatline" -- and now he has a reason to use it.

** When we first see Clara -- or, rather, one of her many echoes scattered through the Doctor's timeline -- she is in a Dalek asylum. The original Clara now dies in a place also called an asylum (albeit of a different type).
** When counting while looking for the entrance to the street, the Doctor says "Remember 82". 1982 was when [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]], the last ''Doctor Who'' story to have a companion (Adric) KilledOffForReal, was broadcast. (This one is so obscure that it comes very close to being a BigLippedAlligatorMoment as the Doctor seems to just randomly grab some passing young boy in order to tie his shoe, asking him to "remember 82" for no apparent reason.)

** The Doctor took Clara to the second most beautiful garden in the universe. He'd previously taken Amy and Rory to the second best planet claiming that everyone goes to the best one and it's a "planet of coffee shops".

** The Doctor is prevented from [[TheILoveYouStigma saying anything approaching "I love you"]], just as he was in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]], though this time his companion stops him; this is followed up by her invoking a sentiment similar to "Does it need saying?", much like "Journey's End.". The fact Clara herself does not say the phrase reflects the promise she made to Danny Pink in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven "Death in Heaven"]] that she would never say "I love you" to anyone else.

* CrucifiedHeroShot: Clara stands with her arms out to her sides, wracked with pain, after the raven flies into her. It may or may not be coincidence that she adopts a similar pose to what some past Doctors (specifically the Ninth and Tenth Doctors) entered when they regenerated...minus the regeneration part.

* DeathsHourglass: The tattoo on Rigsy, and later Clara's, neck counts down from 537 minutes how much time they have until their executions.
* DidntSeeThatComing: It never occurred to Ashildr that Clara would actually take the deathlock off Rigsy. The Doctor is similarly gobsmacked. Clara, for her part, never thought that they'd run into a scenario that they (as in she and the Doctor, together) couldn't fix.

-->'''Ashildr''': I had no idea she'd do something so stupid. I swear, I never meant for anyone to get hurt. What were you thinking, sacrificing yourself?\\
'''Clara''': I wasn't sacrificing anything! It was strategy. Backup plan, to buy us more time.\\
'''The Doctor''': Who told you to give it to her?\\
'''Clara''': Nobody did! I did! Rump said...\\
'''The Doctor''': What exactly did Rump say?\\
'''Clara''': He said the death is locked in. You can pass it on, but...but... (oh, crap...)\\
'''The Doctor''': But what?\\
'''Ashildr''': But you can't cheat it altogether.

* FamousLastWords: "Let me be brave...let me be brave..."

** Acceptance: But '''only''' for Clara. Tragically, because he's immediately sent off to the lonely, deadly world of the confession dial in the next episode, the Doctor ends up cycling through Anger and Depression for a long, long time to come. It ultimately drives him to Denial that there is no way he can ''safely'' save her, so in "Hell Bent" he tries Bargaining again...'''with the universe.'''

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Doctor and Clara watch an elderly husband and wife share a last, tearful goodbye before the former faces the raven for stealing medical supplies. The wife tries to convince him to confer the death sentence on her, but can't, and since it has to be given willingly by the bearer she can't take it herself. At the end of the episode, the Doctor and Clara are in a similar last goodbye situation. (This is probably why the Doctor doesn't volunteer to take the sentence upon himself: he knows Clara would ''never'' allow him to die in her place.)

* HeartbrokenBadass: As Clara's final story sees her [[BreakTheCutie broken]], so too does it break the Doctor's hearts. She reminds him to keep to the mark, be a doctor, take care of others...but ''who will take care of him?'' All she can tell him to do is "Heal yourself." She doesn't tell him ''how'', and in "Hell Bent" she'll learn that his way of doing so is ''not'' what she had in mind.
* HeroicBSOD: Although he breaks out of it momentarily to deliver the {{Freakout}} described above, the Doctor is in a state of Heroic BSOD during Clara's farewell, at one point even uttering "This can't be happening". He breaks out of it just before the transporter kicks in ... long enough to utter words to Mayor Me that chill her to the bone.

** Clara takes Rigsy's death sentence on herself -- she thought they would find a way out of it, but in the end it's both this and a SenselessSacrifice. Worse, it's effectively incomplete: While she demands that the Doctor not take revenge, that "no one else, here or anywhere, will suffer" when she dies, he points out that '''he''' will suffer for her loss. All she can do is tell him to heal himself and be brave. As it turns out, once he's DrivenToMadness in the next episode the only way he thinks he can heal himself -- by saving her from this death after the fact -- will risk the safety of the entire universe...

* HilariousOuttakes: The Capaldi era doesn't go in for releasing gag reels, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3t-pRunxKM this miscue]] from the filming of the raven attack scene was considered funny enough between Jenna Coleman's {{Adorkable}} reaction and Peter Capaldi's bird impersonation, for the BBC to officially release it online right after the broadcast. No gag reel was ever released for Series 9, rendering this (and a couple of behind the scenes moments captured for other episodes) as one of the only outtakes of this nature preserved.

** As in "The Woman Who Lived", Ashildr makes a deal with another party without being fully aware of their intentions -- although for much less selfish reasons this time around. She has no idea what this other party, whom she does not identify, wants with the Doctor and his confession dial. It's possible she doesn't remember how badly things went with Leandro, or she ''does'' but doesn't care what happens to the Doctor at this point, as when the deal is made and the plan to frame Rigsy hatched, he looks to be the only one who might suffer. She might even be assuming that whatever happens to the Doctor, he'll find a way out of it ''before'' he suffers. Clara's choice, however, not only leaves her dead but completely ruins any hopes that the Doctor will forgive Ashildr's actions, given he initially threatens to have her ''and everyone else'' brutally killed as vengeance. Ultimately, it's never made clear whether he forgives her or not when all is said and done.
** The Doctor told O'Donnell, who greatly admired him, to stay behind in the TARDIS when they traveled back to TheEighties in "Before the Flood", but she was hot to go with him and Bennett and the Doctor didn't force the issue. For her recklessness, she ended up dead, and the Doctor (being a PragmaticHero) made the best of it, as it were, by having this confirm his theory on the message his ghost in the future was sending. Clara's death here is also attributable to recklessness inspired by the Doctor's example, and the Doctor not doing enough to discourage it though he was aware of it -- [[SenselessSacrifice and it doesn't even serve a greater purpose this time]], since Ashildr's plan could have wrapped up with no one dying at all had Clara not interfered.

* TheILoveYouStigma: The Doctor is clearly about to say something to this effect, but Clara asks him not to say anything because she already knows what he's going to say, and she already is a victim of bad timing. Translation: if the Doctor were to say "I love you" to Clara it would make it even more difficult for her to face the raven. Clara, for her part, does not say it because of the promise she made to the (just-invoked) Danny Pink in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven Death in Heaven]]".

* InHarmsWay: Not once, but twice in the first act of the episode Clara clearly gets off on the adrenaline rush of this trope, worrying both the Doctor and Rigsy after the second occasion ... and leading to Clara's fatal mistake when she puts herself in harm's way a third time later.

* ItsPersonal: The Doctor may well hold a grudge against Ashildr ''for all time'' over her role in Clara's death; he never does outright forgive her by the end of this story arc. And heaven help whoever is ultimately responsible for the entire affair...

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: the portrait of Clara seen on the TARDIS at the end of the episode (and more clearly seen in "Hell Bent") is based upon a publicity headshot of Jenna Coleman taken for a 2013 Guardian article about the actress (and which is often used by her to promote convention appearances).

* MeaningfulEcho: Clara's plan to take on the death sentence herself is, at its core concept, identical to what the Doctor did with the Foretold in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E8MummyOnTheOrientExpress Mummy on the Orient Express]]".

* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: Given her final speech, Clara clearly hopes to be this to the Doctor -- she knows he doesn't handle being alone well and has committed atrocious acts in his lives when in the throes of despair. She specifically calls back to her climactic speech to the Eleventh Doctor in "The Day of the Doctor", urging the Twelfth to be a doctor, not a warrior. The Doctor's final speech to Ashildr, before he is teleported away, suggests that though he wants to honor Clara's memory by not giving in to anguish and rage, living up to his chosen name will be ''very, very'' difficult for him in the immediate future.

** If the Doctor had let Ashildr die in "The Girl Who Died", ''none'' of the events leading up to this episode would have happened. To be fair to him, it was a SadisticChoice: save her or fail to live up to his chosen name and leave a family bereft, resulting in a different kind of guilt. He chose ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight, and it went awry.
** If Ashildr had ''stayed'' on her "Protecting the Doctor's companions" plan instead of working with ''whoever'' wanted to teleport the Doctor, thus not pulling a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor (as the Doctor wanted), she wouldn't have caused Clara's recklessness which ''led to her death''. It's no surprise the Doctor is filled with such TranquilFury that he threatens her after Clara's death.

* TheNicknamer: As he did in "Flatline," the Doctor calls Rigsy "Local Knowledge". When the Doctor addresses him (Rigsy) by his real name he has a quite justified freakout and pleads with the Doctor to not call him that because he knows it was SeriousBusiness.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The Doctor might have avoided all or some of this if he'd just let an innocent young Viking girl die in the 6th century instead of saving her in a way that made her immortal. Which, in turn, might have happened if [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii he'd let Caecilius and his family die]], rather than saving him and remembering his face. With TheReveal in the next episode that '''the Time Lords''' are the party who made the bargain with Ashildr, he's effectively being punished for ''[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor saving and protecting his homeworld and people]]'' rather than letting billions of innocents burn or [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor allowing the Time War to begin again]]. '''And''' given Clara's vital role in helping save Gallifrey...well, it's no wonder the Doctor undergoes a ProtagonistJourneyToVillain from this point onwards!

* TheNoseKnows: Rump can tell from smelling the Doctor he isn't human and apparently recognized Rigsy from his smell.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Doctor's willing to renounce his name and call in UNIT, the Cybermen, the Daleks -- ''anything'' to destroy Ashildr, the trap street, and its residents if she can't save Clara. Clara has to talk him down because she knows that the threat actually ''isn't'' completely OOC for the man once known as the War Doctor.

** Averted with regards to the trope-naming TARDIS as Rigsy paints a memorial mural to Clara on its side, clearly intending for it to be visible. (AllThereInTheManual: in the shooting script, published online, Rigsy was accompanied by his wife in this scene, who had no problem seeing the TARDIS.)

** [[http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/face-the-raven-review-78229.htm This review points out]] that if the Doctor told Clara about how Ashildr's personality had changed since "The Girl Who Died", Clara wouldn't have trusted her so much.

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Upon realizing that he has not only been betrayed and trapped but will lose Clara for good as well, the Doctor has a FreakOut. Clara realizes that he won't have anyone to help him through his grief and coming ordeal, and orders him not to undergo this trope by way of honoring her memory and making sure no one else suffers. But as it turns out, said ordeal will be far crueler than she imagined, and he will undergo the dark journey as a result.

* RealTime: This is easier to determine when watching the original non-commercial version of the episode, but from the moment Clara tells Anahson there is only 12 minutes left on the countdown until Clara is struck by the raven and dies ... is indeed 12 minutes. Similarly, when Clara reveals her neck to Ashildr and it shows eight minutes left, Clara dies eight minutes of screen time later.

* SequelEpisode: To both "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]" and "The Girl Who Died" / "The Woman Who Lived", with Rigsy from the former story and Ashildr from the latter.
* SharpDressedMan: After dressing casual for the entire season to this point, the Doctor suddenly decides now is the time to start wearing a sharp new purple velvet number.

** The trap street has a ''strong'' physical resemblance to [[Franchise/HarryPotter Diagon Alley]] (and both are hidden "magical" worlds within London). In an [[http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com/2015/11/exclusive-sarah-dollard-face-raven_18.html interview with Blogtor Who]], writer Sarah Dollard explained that her script described the street's appearance quite differently, but designer Michael Pickwoad had other ideas...
** The episode has a moody setting and involves a supernatural corvid and the notion that one should come to terms with a beloved person's death by other means than seeking and enacting revenge on the people responsible. [[Film/TheCrow Hm...]]
* ShrineToTheFallen: The TARDIS exterior becomes one for Clara in TheStinger, since the Doctor's not going to be using it for a while...

* TheStinger: In addition to the Next Time trailer for "Heaven Sent", this episode has an additional scene after the end credits roll: Rigsy painting a memorial to Clara on the front of the currently-abandoned TARDIS. This is the first time such a scene has been included in a ''Doctor Who'' episode -- which backfired slightly as many viewers of the later "Hell Bent" evidently never saw the stinger, and were confused as to why the TARDIS was covered with flowers and Clara's image. BBC America airings move its placement to between the "Next Time" trailer for "Heaven Sent" and the end credits, due to their CreditsPushback format.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The official BBC trailer and the Next Time trailer at the end of "Sleep No More" revealed that this is Clara's farewell episode and even included her final words as she walks towards the raven. The trailer also spoiled Ashildr's return. Fans cite this (and similar spoilery promotion for the season finale) as examples of the BBC ruining too many surprises.
* TranquilFury: After Clara's death, right before he's teleported, the Doctor tells Ashildr that, despite him trying his best to not seek revenge upon her, she should avoid him at all costs. "You'll find it's a very small universe when I'm angry with you." All without raising his voice. And it's utterly terrifying to watch. (UpToEleven when one recalls "The Woman Who Lived" in which the Doctor points out that, despite being functionally immortal, it ''is'' possible for Ashildr to be killed.)

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The viewers get to hear every detail of Clara's plan to take Rigsy's death sentence onto herself and save both of them, which basically ensures that something will go wrong. Clara even says "Never tell anyone your actual plan" as her reasoning for not telling the Doctor what she's up to. She's basically telling the audience that her plan is going to fail.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Ashildr's part of the plot is pretty minor. Basically all she had to do was come up with a way to lure the Doctor to the trap street, get his confession dial, and that would be it, with no one getting hurt (at least on trap street). She didn't intend for Clara to die and likely had no inkling that the Doctor would be put into a torture chamber for the next 4 1/2 billion years. She also appears to be unaware of the Time Lords' involvement.

* WhamLine: One word: "No." It's uttered by the Doctor when Clara says that they always fix things that go wrong. Even though the Doctor goes on to threaten Ashildr in hopes of undoing it, that one word seals Clara's fate, and Clara knows it.

* YouExclamation: When Ashildr arrives to take charge of matters in the trap street, this is the Doctor's response; he had the same reaction when she took off her Knightmare disguise in "The Woman Who Lived".

* AllThereInTheManual: The BBC published [[http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/DW9-EP10-Face-the-Raven.pdf the script]] for the episode, which reveals details that didn't make it to air, including revealing Rigsy's real name. Rigsy's wife is also featured in the story, but is absent from the final episode. A key moment in the script but not the episode has the Doctor bringing Clara's body inside, instructing Rigsy to take care of her remains and notify her school and family, and demanding that Me allow Rigsy to keep his memory. If the scene had been included it would have alleviated some fan backlash from those upset at the implication that the Doctor simply left Clara lying alone in the street, and the plot hole created by showing Rigsy painting a mural to Clara at the end, even though he shouldn't have any memory of the incident.

* AnimatedTattoo: The one on Rigsy's back (and, later, Clara's) that acts as DeathsHourglass. Ashildr also has one, which comes to life when an execution is taking place.
* AntiVillain: Ashildr/Me -- she just wanted to protect the trap street and she didn't think the deal she'd made with whomever wanted the Doctor's confession dial was worth risking the inhabitants. Her remorse at Clara being caught by the chronolock is genuine.

** When we first see Rigsy in "Flatline", he's cleaning up some of his graffiti. When we last see Rigsy in "Face the Raven", he's adding graffiti art to the TARDIS.

* HilariousOuttakes: The Capaldi era doesn't go in for releasing gag reels, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3t-pRunxKM this miscue]] from the filming of the raven attack scene was considered funny enough between Jenna Coleman's {{Adorkable}} reaction and Peter Capaldi's bird impersonation, for the BBC to officially release it online right after the broadcast. No gag reel was ever released for Series 9, rendering this (and a couple of behind the scenes moments capture for other episodes) as one of the only outtakes of this nature preserved.

* ImplacableMan: During his FreakOut, the Doctor threatens to become this towards Ashildr. And when he says "I will rain hell on you until the end of time," this is one character capable of carrying out the threat literally.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Humans leaving the Trap Street have their memories wiped. This is a problem for Rigsy, who is sentenced to death for a crime he doesn't remember committing. (AllThereInTheManual -- The script reveals that Rigsy is not mindwiped again at the end in order to ensure Clara's death is properly dealt with, hence his being able to paint the memorial on the TARDIS.)

* LoveMakesYouEvil: When the Doctor freaks out at Ashildr over Clara's impending demise, not only does he threaten to destroy her and everyone she loves (implying everyone on the trap street), he says he'll do so using the military ''and'' the ruthless Daleks and Cybermen who are his mortal enemies. To put a bow on it, he even momentarily denounces his own name, The Doctor, which in the mythos of the series is A. Huge. Thing. Clara literally spends nearly all of the rest of her (natural, anyway) life talking him down...and once she's gone and he's teleported away there's literally ''no one'' to encourage him not to become a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.

* PowerfulAndHelpless: The Doctor has no means of removing the chronolock from Clara, nor can he destroy the quantum shade. He threatens a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Ashildr and the trap street if ''she'' can't undo it, declaring he'll call on all his allies and even his worst enemies to do so, but Ashildr is just as helpless -- and Clara doesn't want her mistake turning him into a CompleteMonster who would slaughter innocent refugees in her name. In the end, he has no choice but to watch her die and be handed over to the party Ashildr made the bargain with. The Doctor spends the next two episodes desperate to find ''some'' way to escape his enemies and bring Clara back from the grave, but this trope continues to apply to him throughout.

* PowerfulButHelpless: The Doctor has no means of removing the chronolock from Clara, nor can he destroy the quantum shade. He threatens a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Ashildr and the trap street if ''she'' can't undo it, declaring he'll call on all his allies and even his worst enemies to do so, but Ashildr is just as helpless -- and Clara doesn't want her mistake turning him into a CompleteMonster who would slaughter innocent refugees in her name. In the end, he has no choice but to watch her die and be handed over to the party Ashildr made the bargain with. The Doctor spends the next two episodes desperate to find ''some'' way to escape his enemies and bring Clara back from the grave, but this trope continues to apply to him throughout.

* WomanInBlack: Ashildr now dresses in black -- ''not'' a good sign!

* HistoryRepeats: As in "The Woman Who Lived", Ashildr makes a deal with another party without being fully aware of their intentions -- although for much less selfish reasons this time around. She has no idea what this other party, whom she does not identify, wants with the Doctor and his confession dial. It's possible she doesn't remember how badly things went with Leandro, or she ''does'' but doesn't care what happens to the Doctor at this point, as when the deal is made and the plan to frame Rigsy hatched, he looks to be the only one who might suffer.

** Clara preventing the Doctor from saying "I love you" (or anything resembling this statement) is reminiscent of the Tenth Doctor waffling over saying it to Rose Tyler in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]] when, at one point, he utters "Does it need saying?" instead.

** The Doctor is prevented from [[TheILoveYouStigma saying anything approaching "I love you"]], just as he was in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]], though this time his companion stops him; this is followed up by her invoking a sentiment similar to "Does it need saying?", again from "Doomsday.". The fact Clara herself does not say the phrase reflects the promise she made to Danny Pink in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven "Death in Heaven"]] that she would never say "I love you" to anyone else.

* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: The Doctor, Clara and Ashildr debate the issue, but ultimately realize Clara's only option is to face the raven (though the Doctor [[spoiler: inserts a third option in a later episode]]).

* HilariousOuttakes: The Capaldi era doesn't go in for releasing gag reels, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3t-pRunxKM this miscue]] from the filming of the raven attack scene was considered funny enough between Jenna Coleman's {{Adorkable}} reaction and Peter Capaldi's bird impersonation, for the BBC to officially release it online right after the broadcast.