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* TooDumbToLive: Storr thinks he can make an alliance with the Ice Warriors. It doesn't end well for him.
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* OnlySaneMan: By episode 6, Miss Garrett has begun to agree with Clent’s unhealthy dependence on the computer and Arden and Davis are both dead. As a result, Walters is the one man on base left who points out how useless relying on the computer has been and insists that Penley or the Doctor would be more useful. He gets tranquilliser by Miss Garrett and killed by Varga for his troubles.
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Cold War is not their most recent appearance any mroe
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The Ice Warriors would recur several more times under the Second and Third Doctors before disappearing from the show. They had been planned for [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTLSS1E2MissionToMagnus a story with the Sixth Doctor]] before cancellation put paid to that. And the Seventh, before it was cancelled again. They most recently eventually reappeared in the Eleventh Doctor episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E8ColdWar "Cold War"]] and later returned again in the Twelfth Doctor episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E9EmpressOfMars "The Empress of Mars"]].
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* LawfulStupid: Leader Clent as detailed on IdiotBall above.
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The Ice Warriors would recur several more times under the Second and Third Doctors before disappearing from the show. They had been planned for [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTLSS1E2MissionToMagnus a story with the Sixth Doctor]] before cancellation put paid to that. And the Seventh, before it was cancelled again. They most recently reappeared in the Eleventh Doctor episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E8ColdWar "Cold War"]] and later returned again in the Twelfth Doctor episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E9EmpressOfMars "The Empress of Mars"]].
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* AchillesInHisTent: Penley, the former Chief Scientist of the base, has walked out in disgust at Clent's blind trust in computers and is living as a [[ScavengedPunk scavenger]].
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* AchillesInHisTent: Penley, the former Chief Scientist of the base, has eventuals walked out in disgust at Clent's blind trust in computers and is living as a [[ScavengedPunk scavenger]].
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Deborah Watling was unable to attend the complete recording of the final episode. Consequently, Victoria is asked (off-screen) to return to the TARDIS halfway through the episode. She was originally supposed to return to Brittanicus Base with him and appear in the final control room sequence. Jamie took on one of Victoria's lines as a result.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** Deborah Watling was unable to attend the complete recording of the final episode. Consequently, Victoria is asked (off-screen) to return to the TARDIS halfway through the episode. She was originally supposed to return to Brittanicus Base with him and appear in the final control room sequence. Jamie took on one of Victoria's lines as aresult.result.
** Bernard Bresslaw used a hushed, hissing voice for Varga, as his normal voice was too recognisable from his recurring roles in the ''Film/CarryOn'' films and would have killed any chance of the audience taking the character seriously.
** Deborah Watling was unable to attend the complete recording of the final episode. Consequently, Victoria is asked (off-screen) to return to the TARDIS halfway through the episode. She was originally supposed to return to Brittanicus Base with him and appear in the final control room sequence. Jamie took on one of Victoria's lines as a
** Bernard Bresslaw used a hushed, hissing voice for Varga, as his normal voice was too recognisable from his recurring roles in the ''Film/CarryOn'' films and would have killed any chance of the audience taking the character seriously.
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* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Varga threatens to kill Victoria if the Doctor doesn't tell him what kind of power source the base uses. (Victoria courageously tells the Doctor ''not'' to tell him.)
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* ShakyPOVCam: There's a quick hand-held camera shot from the bear's point of view as it attacks Penley and Jamie.
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* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Done to Victoria, of course, when she's in the Ice Warriors' clutches. (Amusingly, it was actually Deborah Watling who was often leading the Ice Warriors around when they grabbed her because the actors had such limited vision in their helmets.)
* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: The fearsome bear that menaces Penley and Jamie is incredibly cute.
* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: The fearsome bear that menaces Penley and Jamie is incredibly cute.
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* PetTheDog: Clent's reassuring Arden that the deaths was not his fault.(due to him wanting to bring the Ice Warrior back)
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* PetTheDog: Clent's reassuring Arden that the deaths was were not his fault.fault (due to him wanting to bring the Ice Warrior back)back).
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The Ice Warrior thaws and wakes up, stating his name is Varga and it he was the commander of a ship from "the Red Planet" which crashed on Earth thousands of years ago. Now that his own planet is dead, Varga plans to conquer Earth with the help of his similarly-frozen comrades.
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* SpecialEditionTitle: The serial's title, writer and episode number are presented in an unusual manner where they are faded in over shots of the frozen wastelands. The episode numbers are also given as "ONE", "TWO", etc, rather than the usual "Episode 1".
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Leader Clent insists on doing everything based on what the computer tells him to do, even though huge scaly defrosted green men from Mars have bunkered down in a dead spaceship and are trying to kill the scientists out of paranoia and there is [[OutsideContextProblem no way the computer could possibly have a plan to deal with them]]. Several times in the story, characters get a plan in motion only to have Clent scupper it due to lack of input from the computer. Everybody else in the base is frustrated with his behaviour but powerless to do anything about it, and one has even dropped out of civilisation entirely and gone to live in an icy wilderness due to being sick of Clent.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Deborah Watling was unable to attend the complete recording of the final episode. Consequently, Victoria is asked (off-screen) to return to the TARDIS halfway through the episode. She was originally supposed to return to Brittanicus Base with him and appear in the final control room sequence. Jamie took on one of Victoria's lines as a result.
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* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelisation, dialogue and Varga himself identifies him as a 'Warlord', while Zondal is given the rank of lieutenant.
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The Ice Warriors would recur several more times and had been planned for [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTLSS1E2MissionToMagnus a story with the Sixth Doctor]] before cancellation put paid to that. And the Seventh, before it was cancelled again. They most recently reappeared in the Eleventh Doctor episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E8ColdWar "Cold War"]].
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* IdiotBall: Most of the plot tension is generated by the fact that Leader Clent is an ObstructiveBureaucrat completely dependent on his computer to tell him what to do, and refusing to either take the initiative or allow anyone else to. Multiple times the other scientists get a plan in motion only to have it scuppered by Clent's insistence on going through the computer. Dealt with realistically in that everyone else on the base hates him for this, and one has even left civilisation to become a scavenger due to how unbearable he is to work with. Also, bosses like that are TruthInTelevision.
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* OutsideContextProblem: Climate change scientists are trying to hold back a glacier, in a way that is clearly business as usual in the setting. Then one of the members finds a mummified body frozen in an ice floe and brings it back for research purposes. It turns out to be a Martian warrior downed in an ancient plane crash and trying to find its allies again. They are dependent on their computer to calculate probabilities and obsessively do what it says — naturally, it has no programming to deal with alien invasions, leaving them high and dry and forcing them to rely on the Doctor, for whom these things are more normal.
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* DisneyDeath: Victoria witnesses Jamie's apparent death at the hands of an Ice Warrior. However, while the man with Jamie is killed, Jamie himself survives.
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* SimilarSquad: The freedom-loving renegade scientist Penley and his younger, blunter Scottish sidekick Storr click instantly with the Doctor and Jamie.
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The Ice Warriors would recur several more times and had been planned for [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTLSS1E2MissionToMagnus a story with the Sixth Doctor Doctor]] before cancellation put paid to that. And the Seventh, before it was cancelled again. They most recently reappeared in the Eleventh Doctor episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E8ColdWar "Cold War"]].
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* PetTheDog: Clent's reassuring Arden that the deaths was not his fault.(due to him wanting to bring the Ice Warrior back)
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* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelisation, dialogue and Varga himself identifies him as a 'Warlord', while Zondal is given the rank of lieutenant.
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** Ironically Deborah Watling really liked those outfits and lamented that she didn't get to look as glamorous as Wendy Gifford in the role of Miss Garrett.
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* CrocodileTears: Victoria does this in over-the-top fashion to cover up her and The Doctor's scheming. (It's actually kind of impressive given all the legitimate weeping she'd done in the story up to then.)
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[WallaceAndGromit Wallace]] is Elric Penley.
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* MissingEpisode: This story is largely intact, with only episodes two and three (of six) missing. Until the return of "The Enemy of the World" and "The Web of Fear", it was the only story from Troughton's first two seasons that was anywhere near being complete, with the exception of "The Tomb of the Cybermen". In August 2013, the serial was released on DVD for the first time, with the missing episodes restored using animation.
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[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E8ColdWar "Cold War"]].
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* AuthorFillibuster: Several rants (from different characters) scattered throughout the serial on the [[LuddWasRight evils of relying too much on computers to make our decisions.]]
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* LuddWasRight: On computers. Ironically the most outspoken critic of computers here is a scientist.
